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Twitter Link Roundup #210 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models | Moz – crowdspring.co/1f86l3x. What’s up with the Series A? – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1.

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Repeat Founders and the Risk of a False Positive

View from Seed

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. You needed to find the most scrappy and cost efficient way to get a product out, and in the process learned tons about the market and customer you are trying to serve.

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The Fallacy of Channels: Startups Beware

Both Sides of the Table

Sort of amortizing the costs of their sales reps over more products. Except that most of the these deals end up going in the PR waste bucket. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. That’s going to cost you margin. End of story.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.&# I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.