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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans).