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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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VCs Have Flashback Syndrome

Experienced VCs have invested in lots of companies and inevitably some of those companies have failed. When a VC sees a new company that is similar to a previous investment that failed VCs tend to shy 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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How to Improve Your Startup Business Plan

Peter shares good advice on how to improve the business plan and use it as a funding tool. more...
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Slide raises $50 million dollars

Slide, the maker of applications for social networks, has raised another round of funding – $50 million from the private equity funds at Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, two major Wall Street investment houses. more...
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The WiMAX party

WiMAX is an interesting technology which is very promising and supposed to make wireless broadband a reality. In this post Jitendra talks about all the major players and their interesting moves. more...
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New Year Sale: Plaxo

Apparently Plaxo is for sale as per Mike at Tech Crunch. Plaxo has hired an investment banker to help them sell the company. As per last rumors, Plaxo was supposed to be acquired by Xing, but apparently more...
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Blekko preparing to attack Google

Blekko, A new startup started in a Garage and aiming to dislodge the Search Engine giant of today, Google. Techcrunch has a nice story. more...
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Sujjest Offers Visual eBay Search

Sujjest (think “suggest” with the letters “j” instead of “g”) is a new search tool that’s getting its web legs by building an eBay search from its introductory technology. This all occurs more...
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Bebo Hires a Banker too

Following on the heels of Digg, now Bebo hires a banker. You hire a banker when you are either looking forward to sell or to raise very larger private round from late stage investors. more...
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