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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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Most Great Entrepreneurs Don’t Drop Out of Harvard

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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Get a Technical Degree But Entrepreneurial Spirit

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

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More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

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link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.]

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