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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders. They now have a cool new way to get intros to these angels: StartupList.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

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Erik Chan, founder and CEO of RocketClub, advises seeking out investors “who invest in a different space,” as this can sometimes provide feedback from a new angle that those in your industry might have missed. Ask an angel investor: Targeting a particular angel investor can be a good tactic, as they are often willing to evaluate your pitch.

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Picking Ventures: Part 2 - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.  Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

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“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. I wrote a blog post on this. Educate more alumni angel investors.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

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Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. Now I have.

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