I recently had the opportunity to interview the “super angel” Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC for our big feature on angel investment. If you missed the video, you’re missing out. Clavier dropped some good nuggets of information about his approach to investing, the Internet startup climate, and the big opportunities he wants to fund next. Clavier has made 75 consumer Internet investments in the last
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Posted by admin 73 days ago (http://gigaom.com)How to Brainstorm New Ideas
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I promised in last week's post on "How to Kill Good Ideas" to follow up with some ways that more constructively help create new ideas. The first of these is taken from an idea by Mats Kindahl's post of two other ways to kill ideas. Without further delay, here they are...
Work at a Startup: Learn about Working at a Startup
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Work at a Startup is a special evening event designed to explain that. How can you tell whether a startup would be good to work for? How much salary and equity should you expect from startups at different stages? What's the work like at different types of startups? Are there any danger signs you should watch for? We'll answer all those questions.
An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself
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SIX years ago, fresh out of Stanford with a degree in economics, I had what many would consider the perfect job. I was a management consultant at a prestigious firm, with an office overlooking the San Francisco Bay and a shiny new ThinkPad to boot. My co-workers were intelligent, ambitious and fun, and I interacted with high-level executives at Fortune 500 companies. My perks included free concer
Oxford Survey Examines Student-Run VC Funds
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More universities have begun to establish investment vehicles using endowments and donations, and the University of Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation released a report recently on some of the university student-led venture capital funds. The report, based on a survey of 13 VC funds in which students manage, administer, and make investment decisions, aims to provide an overview of
Does Your Startup Have a Good Story?
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Never underestimate the importance of having a good story when pitching your startup to potential investors, clients, partners, and journalists. As Seth Godin writes in his 2005 bestseller All Marketers Are Liars, "Either you're going to tell stories that spread or you're going to become irrelevant." Godin's book addresses a shift in marketing - away from simply presenting factual information and
Why Everyone Should Get Funded (Once)
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The smart money says there’s plenty of capital out there. And from the perspective of near-term return optimization, they’re right. In fact, there’s probably too much capital out there, especially in major centers of innovation like New York, Boston and the Valley. If you were to seed fund the “marginal 10%” of companies — the companies that barely miss the current threshold for funding, if such
Welcome to Partnerplank - Find your Business Partner here
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Partnerplank is an independent Online Business Community for doing Business collaborations. It Collaborates the Business Partners to provide the opportunities for the growth of Business.