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Dear Founder: Do you want to be Rich, or be the King?

As a Founder, if you want to be the King of your startup, then your days are numbered. The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go? is based on a new work co-authored by Noam Wasserman, a professor of entrepreneu more...
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Leah Culver, 25, Co-Founder of Pownce gives some answers

Pownce is one of the most closely watched startups in the Silicon Valley. One of its co-founders is a 25 year old Computer Science engineer from University of Minnesota, Leah Culver whose graduation project more...
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Internet co-founder gets $12M more for a “flow-based” router

Larry Roberts, the co-founder of Internet has raised about $12 Million for his startup Anagran. His previous company, Caspian, burned through $317 million in venture capital from firms like US Venture more...
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Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder has golden touch

Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn has about 1500 connections and has the Midas touch when it comes to start-ups. A college friendship led Hoffman to PayPal and his first windfall when eBay Inc. bought more...
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Earthlink founder Sky Dayton steps down as Helio CEO

Beleaguered Earthlink is struggling with its woes. The founder Sky Dayton is reducing his footprint in the mobile company Helio and is stepping down. A combination of market dynamics and challenges at more...
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How to Optimize the Founder’s Mind

Carleen Hawn writes about what startup founders need to do to optimize their brain. From visionaries like Steve Jobs to Sequoia VC Moritz, all read wide variety of books to sharpen their brains. more...
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The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

Most of startup founders are fired in the very first year as founder CEO's and are typically replaced by a VC selected CEO. This is typically done by adding another member to the board, and then voting more...
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The Story of Tesla’s Founders' Fight

Tesla Motors has been in the news for a lot of reasons. Some of it has been positively negative - the fight between the investor, founder Elon Musk, who it is now reported had put in about $55 Million more...
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Webroot founder found dead in Hawaii

Considered by many to be a security visionary for having come up with the anti-spyware idea and founder of the startup Webroot in 1997, Steven Thomas was declared missing for a few days and has finally more...
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Eve.com founder Mariam Naficy launches new e-tailer

Remember those days before the dot com bust, when Mariam Naficy founded online cosmetics e-tailer Eve.com and raised $26 Million from well known names like Idealab and Menlo Ventures only to go bust pretty more...
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