Has Heisenberging of the entrepreneur market been taken into account in their models? Do simulations assume that the model being simulated does not impact the pool of entrepreneurs that apply to the program? If my hypothesis is correct that (the best people will tend to avoid applying for such a program), then the impact the model has upon the market seems like it could be quite large - perhaps
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People vs. Process: The Wrong Side of Venture Finance
Posted by admin 147 days ago (http://measuringmeasures.com)
A group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will travel to Washington DC this week to promote the Startup Visa Act of 2010, legislation to spur job creation by enabling startup founders to bring new companies to the US, if they can demonstrate funding from US-based investors. The group plans to meet with a variety of federal representatives to brief them on the bill, including
Startup Visa 2gov - Join Our Tweet Hall
Posted by admin 148 days ago (http://startupvisa.2gov.org)
Show your support for Startup Visa by joining our Tweet Hall! To participate, simply Tweet @2gov supporting #StartupVisa exactly at 10 AM Pacific on Wednesday March 3rd. We'll collect your Tweets and deliver them during our visit to the White House on March 4th.
Innovation - Giving Birth to a Startup
Posted by admin 148 days ago (http://socialinnovationperspectives.blogspot.com)
People often ask me where the idea for a startup comes from. Well, in the case of Picnik, it starts by having a brilliant friend I love working with, some free time and an active imagination. Darrin and I started in the summer of 2005 with no specific idea other than to do something interesting with Flash. We believed Flash was going to be an interesting emerging platform and that it would be int
The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents
Posted by admin 148 days ago (http://www.feld.com)
Many smart and capable people have either worked on these various docs on signed on as supporters. However, until there is one standardized set of documents that everyone – especially the various law firms agree on – I don’t expect there to really be a standardized set of seed financing documents. I wrote about this in my post The Challenge of The Ideal First Round Term Sheet.
Marc Andreessen on Series Seed Documents, and Why VCs Should Start Using Them
Posted by admin 148 days ago (http://www.pehub.com)
Beginning later today, entrepreneurs on the verge of raising seed-stage funding will be able to access open-source, stripped-down term sheets called Series Seed Documents. The documents — authored by Fenwick & West attorney Ted Wang with input from Andreeesen Horowitz, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Ron Conway, Mike Maples, and several other heavy-hitting seed investo
Monster.com and Eons.com founder Jeff Taylor thinks entrepreneurs are bluffing when they cite Boston’s harsh winter weather as the reason for fleeing the city for operations elsewhere, such as California’s Silicon Valley. “The real objection is that it’s hard to get discovered in Boston, and that our resource-rich community feels like it’s locked behind closed doors,” he says.
Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”
Posted by admin 148 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)
Last August, we wrote about Y Combinator’s latest idea: RFS, or, Requests for Startups. Basically, this allows the incubator to lead entrepreneurs in a certain direction based on trends they think will be hot. Y Combinator then selects the best ideas based around these guidelines to fund. The latest RFS (number 6), throws down a gauntlet, of sorts.