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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. Sure, companies in the Bay Area – particularly Silicon Valley and San Francisco – consistently receive the highest percentage of venture money nationwide. One of the countries gaining momentum with the early-stage start-up community is Canada, and for good reason.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. That’s why much early stage funding is “Friends and Family”; your friends and family naturally overrate you and/or can’t say no. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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ZURBsoapbox is a hidden gem event

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

The funny part is that I didn’t realize Eventbrite had male cofounders since Women 2.0 always spotlighted Julie Hartz, cofounder and wife of Kevin. ConnectGroup – developed relationship with a Hilton general mgr in the south bay, then he became an advisor for Connect, got them into a few other hotels.

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You Need a BoD Now

Scalable Startup

Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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How to design a Board of Directors

Scalable Startup

Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. Finding your cofounders [link] [.] larken: Ortaklar?n?z?