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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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In April, “stealthsocial media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. To this day, the purpose of the site is still secret.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

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Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Entrepreneur Chris Dixon posts on why its really not that dangerous to share your super-stealth idea with other people: There are [.]. cdixon.org - chris dixons blog.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.