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Even though my company, Altos Research, isn’t actively seeking capital, I had breakfast the other day with a venture guy at Buck’s in Woodside, Calif. VCs can be very useful for strategic advice even if — or, especially when — you don’t want their money. Interestingly, […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: Founder Aruni Gunasegaram has written about the virtues of ignoring “the experts” , things no one tells you about VCs, and her preparations for “shaking the can” for her current startup, BabbleSoft, in My Funding Toolkit. On her blog today, Aruni shares some insights […] Read more »

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The other day I had coffee with an entrepreneur whom we’ll call Shai. Shai was entertaining me with good, and not-so-good, stories about his experiences learning the ropes in the new media business in the U.K. One pearl of wisdom stuck out. Shai recalled a period […] Read more »

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Harvard thinks so. “Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than people who work in paid employment. Research shows that entrepreneurs comprise fewer than 9 percent of households in the United States but they hold 38 percent of household assets and 39 percent of the total net […] Read more »

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Venture capital reporter John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer offers another great story for you about a young startup in the throws of preparing for DEMO next week. LiquidPlanner, which makes Web2.0 management tools is one of 70 companies chosen to deliver a 360 second-presentation before […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: Our instructive humorist, Larry Chiang, is at it again. If you enjoyed 9 VC’s You’re Gonna Want To Avoid, you’ll like this week’s submission, on some all-important business skills no founder could glean from a GSB syllabus. We’re co-sponsoring Larry’s contest to discover the […] Read more »

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Our weekly wrap-up of stuff you need to read, or bookmark for future reference. This week we’ve got stabs at various aspects of leadership — and in two cases, examples of what not to do. Several others come out of an email blast we got from […] Read more »

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iTaggit founder, David Altounian wrote on his blog recently of a question that many startup entrepreneurs have to address. It’s on the topic of geography and whether it matters, especially when it comes to funding. Or, as David puts it: Can emerging tech ever achieve “location […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: Fund raising is one of the most difficult things a startup founder will do. As a VC, Rich Moran, sees entrepreneurs struggle through this process almost daily. I suspect because it can be an intimidating process — and because funding decisions sometimes seem arbitrary […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: We’ve been introduced to a great new founder’s blog, and we’re delighted Chris Lyman has agreed to share it with us. A 3-time entrepreneur, Chris is currently CEO of Fonality, a Los Angeles-based VoIP provider he founded in 2003 — and where Chris prefers […] Read more »

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Found|READ contributor Aruni Gunasegaram is preparing to seek angel funding for her current startup, Babble Soft, which builds Web and mobile communication software products that help simplify parents’ lives. This is Aruni’s second company. Her first, Isochron, was a bubble-era dotcom founded in 1997 — out […] Read more »

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Today we introduce FoundWATCH, our new series of video Q&As with business luminaries — serial founders, thought leaders in entrepreneurship, big name investors, and more — all of whom will share their hard-earned wisdom for how you can be more successful with your startups. Our first […] Read more »

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Hey founders, here is your chance to help one of your peers win $50,000 in cash! It’s also a great opportunity to see what a promising startup looks like through Jeff Bezos‘ rose-colored glasses. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the business software unit of Amazon.com, is about […] Read more »

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