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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. The reality is that the super vast majority of liquidity events are M&A and the majority of those are in the under $100M range. The result was too much money in too few deals.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Mantis (Open source).

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Why “Luck” is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup.

Software By Rob

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. Years later I’ve realized that the single most important factor to a product’s success is not the founders, not the marketing effort, and certainly not the software itself. “That’s ridiculous!&#