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Millionaire Startup Founders keep trying

A new generation of junior titans in Silicon Valley who might be called the prematurely rich — techies worth tens of millions of dollars, sometimes more, at an age when many others are just starting more...
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How ArsDigita went from a being buzzing Startup to legal fight between founders and VC's

A very interesting story of a startup which went from being one of the sought after by VC's to going bust and being entangled in legal fights. Their philosphy "we'll attack this problem a few years before more...
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Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders

So you start a web service with some friends. They do the programming. You do everything else. Suddenly the service takes off. You are thrilled and getting ready to pop open the bubbly. But then things more...
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Seed funding vs Series A - things the startup founders must consider

When is it best to go for the seed funding instead of going around asking for $5 million from the VC's. Carl's points out the things startup founders must consider to decide what kind of funding is appropriate more...
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Tips for founders doing their first tech startup

These are the tips written by an entrepreneur for the startup founders who are starting their tech startup. Among other things recommended are starting a blog and finding a third co-founder. more...
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How to Turn Your VC into Your Worst Enemy

In other words, VC's have been my best friends and my worst enemies, in ways that are not always within my immediate control. In the process, ironically, I have come to respect Venture Capitalist as a more...
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Why Are Founders Leaving Social Networks?

Michael Arrington brings up this question with two examples of founders or execs leaving second tier social networks - Jeanine LeFlore, Piczo’s VP of Products and Marketing and Bebo’s co-founder and more...
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Where the interests of Founders and VCs diverge

Stacey Higginbotham goes into this likely situation - what happens when the interests of the Entrepreneurs and the VCs diverge? Taking the example of a startup myPodder who can target both Enterprise 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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