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How to keep stress at bay before your startup grinds you down

An Entrepreneur was working 70 hours a week, still in the red, pouring his own money into the company every month to make up for cash shortfalls, having difficulty keeping employees, and struggling to more...
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Preventing Entrepreneur burnout — and Learning to let go of the reigns

It may be a feeling that you haven’t slept in years. It may be a sudden urge to run from the office and never come back. Or it may just be the feeling that you’ll never be happy again. Regardless of 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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The busy life of a Biotech startup founder

Jim Hardy of Gahaha BioSciences shares his detailed insights on the life of Biotech startup founder in this blogterview with Attila Chordash, who edits the blog. Some interesting tidbits emerge as the more...
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To Bootstrap or Get Funding - from a startup founder

I founded Banner Blue in my spare bedroom during September 1984, then sold it to Broderbund in May 1995. I left the company in November of 1996, having been responsible for over 200 product releases (including more...
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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 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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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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