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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? How would they know unless they surveyed a critical mass of startups all at the same stage now and then three years ago or so to compare?

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Peter Coles. Jon Russell. Jonah Peretti. Lauren Leto.

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Most Great Entrepreneurs Don’t Drop Out of Harvard

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key.

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Get a Technical Degree But Entrepreneurial Spirit

Startup Professionals Musings

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Gust

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?