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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

It’s just a story about what happened to me. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. By now we had found a few customers and learned a lot more about the market from them and other prospects.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Questions about the legal requirements surrounding the establishment, incorporation or funding of a startup may be among the most common and most challenging that entrepreneurs face. The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Many times, I struggle to understand what companies do when I’m reading their ‘about us’ page. We all know about “Antenagate&#. It should be crisp and clear from the start! Be a salesman.

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LawPivot Takes Its Q&A Legal Advice Site Nationwide

ReadWriteStart

Legal questions about the establishing, incorporating, or funding a startup are among the most common that entrepreneurs have. As we've written about before , LawPivot tackles this problem by providing a place where startups can ask legal questions and get crowdsourced answers from qualified lawyers.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. I know it sounds crazy because you’re talking about friends or colleagues here. And you’re probably right.