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Archive for October, 2008

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Why the long face?…"RIP Good times" is overblown…

Friday, October 31st, 2008

I am guessing you will have seen the many sites and blog posts about VC being in deep trouble and us Entrepreneurs even deeper?

These are typical over reactions in my view. Sure the stock market has been hammered…

How angels rate your opportunity…use this checklist to make sure you have covered the bases

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Attached is a useful checklist that professional angels will have a form of to hand when they are doing any due diligence on your business proposal.

It will help you to be aware of what they are looking…

Why startup pitches fail

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Interesting spin on the VC pitch at Venture Hacks by Eric Ries, a founder of IMVU and an advisor to Kleiner Perkins (He’s also a really nice and modest guy!):

Summary: Pitches usually fail because

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Looking for VC funding? seeing who is doing the most deals may help with who’s best to call.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

In the August Issue of Entrepreneur magazine they had an interesting article that lists the "most active" early stage VC investors.

For those trying to get funded this is an important distinction, why? because those doing moire…

The 4-hour workweek: review by Jon Gillespie-Brown, Author "So you want to be an entrepreneur"

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

What an interesting book. I have to say that I bought this as I was intrigued by the title and the strong claim as I am sure most people must be – A triumph of copywriting for a…

More useful "rules" for startups

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I was reading Mark Cuban’s blog that is developing some of the ideas from Jason Calacanis blog about startups.

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/03/09/my-rules-for-startups/

I include it here mainly because for once I actually DISAGREE with a great deal in the…

Top 5 ways to get to pitch a VC even if you don’t know any

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

In a previous post I gave you my take on raising funds in 2008 from the VC community, this was drawn from VCs I know and other entrepreneurs: