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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. At this point, he can grow organically and leverage channel partners and other creative modes of non-equity financing and preserve equity as much as possible. Jimmy asked if he should be raising money at this point.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Once you raise a small angel financing, you still keep many of your options, but are now committing to a growth path with an eye towards eventual liquidity.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part V

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In most VC and angel financing transactions, there are three pieces to this puzzle: (1) the Company requires investors to make certain representations in the purchase agreement (e.g., merger or acquisition).

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

He has veered away from angel financing, and has decided to bootstrap with customer money, and preserve equity ownership, foregoing any immediate dilution related to financing. They also learn a lot about customer acquisitions strategies, what works and what doesn’t. Numerous lessons.

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Startup Tools

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Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)