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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

When Johnny Earle, the founder of Johnny Cupcakes, started in 2001, he didn’t make baked goods; he sold t-shirts about baked goods! He turned his startup capital of $6,700 into $1.2 Startups quickly grow into big companies. million after five years. 10 Ways to Build a Startup.

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Springboard Launches Accelerator Program for Early Stage European Startups

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The program offers seed capital, office space, and "most importantly - that magical ingredient of 'smart-community' with mentors and other entrepreneurs." Participants will receive £5,000 per founder (to a maximum of three founders) for which Springboard will accept 6% of founder shares.

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How to Avoid Being Part of 90% of Failed Companies

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The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. After CB Insights’ investigation yielded such an alarming figure of failure, the company decided to compile more than 100 post mortem letters from different startup founders to discover the reason for the failures. Why do so many companies fail?

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). While the seed capital gap has closed, there are still only a handful of venture capital firms here in NYC investing in the crucial Series A/B rounds.