Board Effect

JUNE 28, 2022

The federal government has a site called Grants.gov that allows you to search for federal grants. Start-up Grants or Seed Money Grants — Start-up grants are hard to come by, but they exist. While foundations commonly offer nonprofit grants, there are several other places nonprofit boards can look for grants.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

A list of activities can be found on the interactive activities calendar at www.gewusa.org/event-central , where visitors can search by keyword or location. GEW offers both virtual and face-to-face activities, ranging from large-scale competitions to intimate networking gatherings. Some of the events that will take place in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. I thought his technology was was potentially a killer app. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!”

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. There is a common complaint heard from local entrepreneurs that AV doesn’t invest in early stage companies anymore.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Maybe the Valley will get back to what it once was all about — making actual technology products. Meanwhile our country is facing a crisis because we have a shortage of students in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math. Previously, Dan was Technology Editor at Newsweek. Enterprise. Share… on Facebook.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

You probably are quicker to build technology vs throwing bodies at a problem. You are searching for stuff that is repeatable and scaleable. Instead, what I often see is that the minute seed money is in the bank, founders try to staff up very quickly. You focus on finding very strong PMF and building a small scale machine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Web search existed before Google. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows. Google is the leader here, as in so many areas of technology.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Technology enthusiasts tend to get tangled up in enthusiasm for their chosen platforms, so wed like to provide an objective summary. PHP is insecure?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For every example of a successful company that proves a myth wrong, there will always be one that will prove it right, especially in today’s world of rapidly expanding technology and connectivity. Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Startups are the epitome of unpredictability and extremes.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Your technology is really cool and working great but no one knows you exist. The business guys only started coming in after the core technology had been built out.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly.

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