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Beware The Consultant

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Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Venture Capital (7). Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police. |. Get A Company on The Fringe.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

The rest of you will just have to go to one of these events to try to find human life partners: Monday, January 25th 6:00PM The Future of Music: with Lyor Cohen, CEO Rec. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link]. Tuesday, January 26th. RSVP: [link].

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Putting Additional Context Around Sequoia’s Message

Pascal's View

Well, the 'don't-tell-anyone-it's-confidential-but here you-go' guerilla dissemination tactics have worked very well for the PR people at Sequoia.   Alan Patricof of Greycroft Partners recently wrote a letter to investors, in part commenting on the need to avoid overreacting to the Sequoia call to alarm.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Venture Capital. with my colleague Ben Horowitz.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses. Venture Capital (7). DoubleClick’s Guerilla Marketing Legacy. |. Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police. |. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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How to Start a Travel Agency

Up and Running

Are you seeking a loan or investment from an angel investor or venture capital firm? From personal funds to venture capital funding, it’s all a possibility. However, when it comes to financing your travel agency, angel investment, and even venture capital funding isn’t completely out of the question. “We