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Startup Founder Lessons: Scott Dunlap On Raising Series A Mistakes

Scott Dunlap is an Entrepreneur, currently obsessing on next gen location-based mobile apps. Early exec at E.piphany (9th highest IPO in 1999), Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO 2001, sold to HP in 2007),…

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How Much Focus Should Startup Founders Place On Getting Acquired?

Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good…

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TWELVE Reasons Why Businesses Fail

I have signed up for a copy of the 7 Steps to Successful Startup by Naeem Zafar, a member of the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Jay Neely- How To Draw Attention To Your Product

Jay Neely is a startup founder & marketing consultant. He writes about Boston entrepreneurship, web strategy, and marketing at socialstrategist.com Jay shares his thoughts on techniques startups use to initially…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Mike Raybman on WaySavvy.com Lessons

Mike Raybman is the co-founder of WaySavvy. WaySavvy is an online travel service that analyzes thousands of hotels and flights for each trip and deliver the optimal “Savvy Choice” in…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Jason Fried On Company Culture

Jason Fried is the co-founder and president of 37signals , a Chicago-based company that builds web-based productivity tools. Fried is the co-author, with David Heinemeier Hansson, of the book “Rework”,…

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Startup Lessons In The First Year of Operation

# Focus, focus, focus. Don’t chase every good idea that comes along, focus on a core product or service and, iterate around it. Simon Olson # Don’t hire in anticipation…

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Must Watch:The Startup Kids, A Documentary About Startup Founders

The Startup Kids is a soon to be released documentary about young entrepreneurs in the US and Europe. The project was started by two highly motivated Icelandic girls who like…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Fahd Butt on Why thinkpanda.com Failed

Fahd Butt was the founder, Chief Technology Officer at Thinkpanda (An academic research and collaboration platform). He is now the Founding Engineer (Employee #1) at Y Combinator-backed Nowmov (Nowmov is…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Steve Huffman, Co-founder of Hipmunk and Reddit

Steve Huffman graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Computer Science in 2005. Immediately after leaving Virginia, he founded reddit.com with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. In…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Sarah Prevette On Sprouter Lessons

Sarah Prevette is the CEO & founder of Sprouter. Sprouter is where founders get help with their startups. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from…

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Fred Wilson On Startups

Fred Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures ($125 million in capital under management), New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter,…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Aaron Franklin On Getting To Beta

Guest post written by Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter.com an application designed to end procrastination and forgetting. LazyMeter has now been in beta for 7 weeks. Our first cohort of…

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Startup Founder Lessons: Tomer Tagrin On Raising Money

Guest post submitted by Tomer Tagrin, Co-founder at Yotpo . Yotpo is a new start-up company that is all about users and users’ opinions. After a few weeks (or forever…

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FOUNDER LESSONS

Startup Founder Lessons: Scott Dunlap On Raising Series A Mistakes

How Much Focus Should Startup Founders Place On Getting Acquired?

TWELVE Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Startup Founder Lessons: Jay Neely- How To Draw Attention To Your Product

Startup Founder Lessons: Mike Raybman on WaySavvy.com Lessons

Startup Founder Lessons: Jason Fried On Company Culture

Startup Lessons In The First Year of Operation

Must Watch:The Startup Kids, A Documentary About Startup Founders

Startup Founder Lessons: Fahd Butt on Why thinkpanda.com Failed

Startup Founder Lessons: Steve Huffman, Co-founder of Hipmunk and Reddit

Startup Founder Lessons: Sarah Prevette On Sprouter Lessons

Fred Wilson On Startups

Startup Founder Lessons: Aaron Franklin On Getting To Beta

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