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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. Convertible Securities.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out! Looking ahead to 2017.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

So I was excited to partner with the good folks at Intelligent.ly Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue?

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Monetization.

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

www.businessinsider.com

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Your Money. Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris strongly denied Grahams accusations, calling them "patently absurd.". " Finance Jobs. Neil Armstrong Escaped Death 7 Times As A Pilot. Clusterstock.