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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Connections?

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low.

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Why College Is a Great Entrepreneurial Incubator

Up and Running

Many students’ college experiences are getting a makeover; frat parties are replaced with finance meetings, and kegs with KPIs. While many people indulge in the stereotype of parties and drinking, college and its resources were some of the most crucial elements to me researching and pitching my business venture—a frozen yogurt food truck.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue. What their initial feedback has been?

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April 9 in Austin: Tech Startup Basics

Austin Startup

Representing numerous different aspects of the startup journey, speakers at the Austin Forum on April 9 include Gordon Daugherty (Capital Factory), Kirk Cesari (Cesari & Reed), Harold Ingersoll (Atchley & Associates), Mitch Jacobson (Austin Technology Incubator), Brian Lang (Profit Foundry), Jill Murphy (FBI), and Nicolia Wiles (PRIME|PR).

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Other angel investors and smaller funds also copied this innovation, and many of these new Micro-VC fund managers (like me) came from operational backgrounds at companies like PayPal/eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, or Google, rather than finance backgrounds from investment banking or Wall Street. and no, we didn’t.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market.