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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. True story.)

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Some disgruntled younger partners left in the mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff). But eventually some disgruntled younger partners left and two started August Capital (Dave Marquardt & John Johnson) and one co-founded Benchmark (Bob Kagle). But it’s not quite that simple.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. DEAL OF THE WEEK. OTHER DEALS.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Consider the case of the last company I co-founded, SiteAdvisor. at a $2.5M They ignore/disrespect the platform.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. Give me a little bit of the origin story of Lulu and kind of how you came to it.