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How Much Of Your Business Do You Want To Own?
I hear from both entrepreneurs and VCs that one of the most commonly cited reasons for not investing is because the "business won’t be big enough." Usually that is delivered by the uninterested...
View ArticleKnow Your Competition
There’s a good post over at VentureBlog on knowing your competition. The post is worth reading, but if you don’t have the time, here’s the conclusion: My advice to any entrepreneur — learn as much as...
View ArticleArt Of Raising Venture Capital
Guy Kawasaki, the guy behind Art of the Start, has some video clips with tips on raising venture capital for early stage startups. He takes 15 minutes to deliver his "top 5" tips: Make sure VC is...
View ArticleStartup Tips For Entrepreneurs
A video interview from TalkTech: "This video focuses exclusively on early-stage startup advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Thomas Stocking and David Dennis at GroundWork Open Source walk through the...
View ArticleTechStars
I was curious about TechStar after learning of it today. I saw this post and Brad Feld describes it more fully in the video below. It’s basically a pre-seed mentoring program for startups. It’s more...
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Triage
Right now in board rooms across the country, nay around the world, the equivalent of battlefield triage is being conducted. Venture capitalists are going through their portfolios and categorizing...
View ArticleDan Nye Is A Modern Day Cortés
There is a point here, so please bear with me… First, some background. You probably already know that Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador (in)famously known for burning his ships upon arrival in...
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There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little
Over the weekend I saw a report from the NVCA about the amount of money US venture funds had invested in the first quarter which Adeo at TheFunded summarized well. The bottom line is that VC funds...
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