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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. “What?

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible.

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

View from Seed

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed? Every accelerator also finances its cohort companies differently. Complicated agreements with MFN clauses and confusing future financing obligations are opaque at best.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. If you can do it for $5000 to $15,000, you’re likely to be able to finance it with a deferred payment or a loan from friends and family. If you’re in New Haven, you may have to go up to Boston.