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Archive for May, 2009

Excellent video for tech startups…by Eric Ries

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I met Eric through a friend Steve Blank and these two have formed a partnership of sorts both in teaching great lessons on startups which grew from working together at IMVU where Eric was a founder and Steve a board…

A fun video about being an entrepreneur…and a viral lesson!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The guys at grasshopper know how to take their marketing viral…produce a fun message, very well produced, if a little cheesy and get the world to do the rest!

Anyway it’s an object lesson for startups on how to spread the…

Need to raise a smaller VC round, say 1-2M, see this list

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I asked a friend Bill Romans to recommend to me smaller VC funds that like to offer smaller amounts of funding and are happy to work with $1-2M and variations around that level.

These guys are VCs but tend to be…