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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. are using AngelMob.co

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? My facebook can beat up your facebook.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. The company’s response to a current event. Besides your company’s description, you’ll also need to create a message for the news event you’re hoping to get covered. Current Events Lists.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. an iPad 2 Killer?