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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Blake has long been involved in the Dallas startup scene, having helped organize the first BarCamp Dallas in 2005. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Our startup made software for making online stores. We knew that ifonline shopping ever took off, these sites would have to be generatedby software, so we wrote some. Itsintrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. DOING DUE DILIGENCE. The money has been really good.