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Archive for November, 2009

Great lessons from an Angel Investor Matt Coffin

Friday, November 27th, 2009

This is one of the best videos I have ever watched to help startups see what makes sense in coming up with an idea and other great lessons, how to avoid building something no one cares about, what angels want…esp.…

Talk to me live…at “Startup School” this Friday

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I have been lucky enough to be invited to chat to Bjoern Lasse Herrmann from Startup School on Friday 27th 10am PST, and I want to invite you along as well.

• Want to hit me with a question about your Startup?…

How to find Angel Investors…the “smart” way!

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

My friend Bob Karr, CEO, Link Silicon Valley, LLC is one smart cookie.

He regularly sends members of his website http://linksv.com very useful, timely and detailed information about funding transactions going on in the Valley.

This is useful because the info. his database…

Make sure your business plan gets read – build a “killer” exec summary

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Like most people I hate writing business plans, I want to get on with the business at hand rather than keep writing and re-writing lots of words about what I plan to do!

This must also be true for many investors…

Want to “burn” your Company to the ground…Fire the founder.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

This topic is always a hot one for founders when they are considering VC money!

Or indeed when they are talking with private equity companies.

I wanted to write about it as a very talented friend of mine was just “fired” after navigating…

20 lessons from Startup School you should burn into your brain!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Paul Graham, as you may know runs Y combinator and also writes very useful essays on various topics many of which I think are excellent and say so here in this blog.

He really got a double whammy recently when he…

Great seminar for Startup financing in London

Monday, November 9th, 2009

My friend Doug Richard and his School for Startups is running what will be a superb seminar on raising financing in London and if you are in that area I urge you to attend if you are raising funding, or…