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10 Secrets of Successful Crowdfunding - From Scott Steinberg

ReadWriteStart

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. If you fail with a crowdfunding campaign, your brand and reputation will take a hit and you’re going to have a hell of a time going back to investors after that to convince them there’s a market for your service or product. It comes down to a sales pitch.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. They also have my favorite company intro video ever. Watch this space.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. if you can’t see the video above click here. We call this the Investment Readiness Level. . Lessons Learned.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. The Investors In researching this post, we solicited the advice of a number of investors. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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DLD 2011: Probably the best organized conference in Europe

VC Cafe

The Big Picture panel: social, mobile, advertising, TV, media – with Google’s Nikesh Arora, Jim Breyer (partner at Accel and board member at Facebook), Thomas Ebeling, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, angel investor and partner at Greylock), and Paul-Bernhard Kallen.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. Let’s set them up with their tablet at home with high-definition video.