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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

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As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. Are These Your Slides?

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

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Instead, the takeaway message for recruiting is: play to your strengths (in Meebos case, its networking), be active, not passive, and get your name out there. ); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

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Intellectual Property. Angel Investors. Employment. Negotiating. People issues. Term Sheets. This and that. Venture Capital. Copyright © 2011 Matthew S. Bartus | Disclaimer. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) CTO – London – Upto £80k Aneesh Chopra Named as Federal CTO This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm and is filed under articles.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Building a Chart We realized that if we wrote the names of the vertical markets across the top of the board, and then the startup functions on the left of the board, we could make a chart that could visually compare what differs across the vertical markets.

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Beware The Consultant

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If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…).

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Now you go: Name (required). Search: RSS Feed. They have lots of options because, for every one of them there are several “business people” trying to get their attention. If you found this post useful, please consider sharing it. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it. Email (required; not published). Your points are solid.