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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

There are many different kinds of accelerators – private and public based accelerators, accelerators that take equity, as well as equity free accelerators. Marc has a background in online marketing, with a focus in SEO and SEM.

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Building an Advisory Board: Practitioners vs Coaches

Hunter Walker

I’m not a big fan of the “social proof” motivation, pairing the right advisors with shared expectations can create value which goes way beyond the small amount of equity they’re awarded. Have the been worth the time and equity?' With Practitioners, it’s a nice complement but not a necessity.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability to excel under pressure.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

www.cscyphers.com

Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup. Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. They also avoid Reg D.

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Trada – from the beginning

VC Adventure

We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead … and treat them the same way we would a $10m investment… when we make a seed investment, it gets everyone’s attention. In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

Recently the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules to govern the upcoming changes in equity crowdfunding for startups and small businesses. Studies have shown that startups fail at a rate between 75% and 90%, so the risk to this new breed of small-time equity investors is real and it is critical that they be well-informed.