Applications are now open for Shotput Ventures 2010. Please fill out the form online.Let us know if we can answer any questions about the application form via Twitter (@shotputventures).This year we have added an early acceptance deadline on March 22. Teams that submit applications prior to the early acceptance deadline will receive a faster notification if they are selected.
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Shotput Ventures 2010 Applications Open
Posted by admin 189 days ago (http://www.shotputventures.com)Co-Founder + Seed Fund = Acceleration
Posted by admin 189 days ago (http://jordancooper.wordpress.com)
There are two major differences between my role as a Venture Partner and that of an EIR. One, EIR’s are expected to leave the venture firms with whom they are spending time, whereas I have made a long term commitment to build and invest LMV with Ken and Ben. Second, there is an expectation at the end of an EIR gig that the fund will invest in an EIR’s project.
A dispatch from the startup frontlines
Posted by admin 189 days ago (http://aarjav.wordpress.com)
It is a cold rainy day in Atlanta today. Bleak as it can be. My daily startup roller-coaster has hit its periodic low and I find that yet again, I need to remind myself why I am doing this. For me, a great thing about starting a startup is all the new things I have learnt. I find that writing down what I have learnt makes it more concrete. Hopefully this will be also be useful to a few others.
People vs. Process: The Wrong Side of Venture Finance
Posted by admin 189 days ago (http://measuringmeasures.com)
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
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 190 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 190 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 190 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.