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

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But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. 7mm in Series C; last round was in 2008; total $24mm raised – Investor: Bessemer (Byron Deeter)(lead); previous investor included Index Ventures, did not participate – Read more: TechCrunch , peHUB.

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How Successful Entrepreneurs Launch A Startup In A Recession

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New business applications are the highest since 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. When I started CFOshare, my UX friend told me the website had too many words, my SEO consultant told me we needed more words, and my accountability partner told me the website was not even important for a service businesses.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. I gave Gio some advice on funding, which I will repeat here for all of you. This is important, so please listen up.

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The Pros and Cons of Founding a Startup During a Recession

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Further still are the discussions that we may eventually be stuck–similar to the Great Recession of 2008–in a recovery that excludes jobs as we emerge from this cluster. In the world of digital and online marketing, the best time to start your website and perform SEO was two to three years ago.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability to excel under pressure.