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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Trust your instincts – they will serve you well as an entrepreneur.

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[Event] Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 To Hit Record 123 Countries

YoungUpstarts

In the United States alone, over 1,400 organizations – including top universities, non-profit organizations, startups, government agencies and corporate sponsors – will host Global Entrepreneurship Week events, Nov. 14 – 20, 2011.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s consider the following two competing software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins and they decide to run their company exactly the same in year one. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 We get the revenue argument, but shouldn’t all companies want to be profitable? Not necessarily.

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Let’s Tax the Boy Scouts

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

One must have at least seed money, or more, to get a start-up going. A credit union is a membership organisation, and, are non-profit by definition. Larger credit unions do indeed compete with banks. People with a financial leg to stand on are the kind of people who start business and fuel the economy. They are not banks.

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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

ReadWriteStart

Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Living expense money 2. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera.