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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:43:22 CST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship and Schools]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:43:22 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was having a conversation about entrepreneurship with someone and they suggested that schools (as in middle and high schools) should teach kids how to run a business. I couldn't resist sharing a story with him on what I learned about running a business from my school in 7th grade.Like many kids then and today, I came into 7th grade an involuntary veteran salesperson, having been<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Questions for Mark Suster: VC, Entrepreneur & Blogging Phenomenon]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/5-questions-for-mark-suster-vc-entrepreneur-blogging-phenomenon/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/5-questions-for-mark-suster-vc-entrepreneur-blogging-phenomenon/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:37 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Suster is a venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur and owner of one of the best office views in Los Angeles. He also has become a blogging phenomenon, joining the pantheon of VCs whose every word is devoured by startup CEOs. He and I have spoken and emailed a few times informally, but it was about time to put something on the record. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Start-up Advice]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:03 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Below are some of the lessons I learned along the way.  If there's a link on a title below I've written the post, if not I plan to.  The summary of each posting will be here but the full article requires you to follow the links. For now it's mostly an outline for me to follow (in no particular order).  I've now started so be sure to look for links.  If you want me to do one sooner rather than lat<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Raising Angel Money]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/raising-angel-money/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/raising-angel-money/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:05:23 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[OK, let me start by saying that I rarely do angel investing since I mostly think it's a sucker's bet unless you have very deep pockets or unless you're in a tech bull market ('97-00, '05-'08) where exits can happen without a lot of follow-on rounds of funding.  If you want to know more about why I feel this way feel free to ask in the comments section and I'll elaborate.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["The Genius in All of Us"]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/the-genius-in-all-of-us/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/the-genius-in-all-of-us/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:14:33 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new book persuasively argues that extraordinary intelligence and talent are not genetic gifts. David Shenk's new book, "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong," is 300 pages long, and more than half of those pages are endnotes. You need to offer up a lot of evidence when your goal is to overturn a concept as commonplace as the idea that <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Want to be a VC?  Try Being an Early Adopter First]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/want-to-be-a-vc-try-being-an-early-adopter-first/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/want-to-be-a-vc-try-being-an-early-adopter-first/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:13:26 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Being a VC is all about learning to invest in companies that are fulfilling a market need in an innovative way (Ok, part of it is about identifying management teams that know what they're doing but I'm ignoring that part for now).  How does one go about the skill of identifying the types of technologies that will hit it big? Both of these give you practice doing a structured analysis of technolog<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/venture-capital-firms-caught-in-a-shakeout/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/venture-capital-firms-caught-in-a-shakeout/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:12:28 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling. Venture firms are struggling to raise new cash, hampered by poor investment returns and a difficult economy. Last year, 125 venture funds in the U.S. collected $13.6 billion, down from 203 funds that r<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[“The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur” Talks About How He Built Zoho Into A Bootstrapped Powerhouse]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/%E2%80%9Cthe-smartest-unknown-indian-entrepreneur%E2%80%9D-talks-about-how-he-built-zoho-into-a-bootstrapped-powerhouse/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/%E2%80%9Cthe-smartest-unknown-indian-entrepreneur%E2%80%9D-talks-about-how-he-built-zoho-into-a-bootstrapped-powerhouse/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:07:41 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur is what Forbes called Zoho's co-founder, Sridhar Vembu. He's become a little less unknown since that article came out, but when it bubbled to the top of Hacker News recently I read it I wanted more details about how he bootstrapped Zoho into a profitable online application provider. So I invited him to Mixergy to tell us the story of how he built his compa<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Team Europe Ventures starts €6m fund for early stage Internet and mobile startups]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/team-europe-ventures-starts-%E2%82%AC6m-fund-for-early-stage-internet-and-mobile-startups/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/team-europe-ventures-starts-%E2%82%AC6m-fund-for-early-stage-internet-and-mobile-startups/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:47:28 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in Germany and Europe, but also in the USA, and the focus will be on the seed stage, with 4-5 startups being invested in per-year for a maximum of €500K per company.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is New York’s Startup Scene Surpassing Boston’s? Not So Fast]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/is-new-york%E2%80%99s-startup-scene-surpassing-boston%E2%80%99s-not-so-fast/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/is-new-york%E2%80%99s-startup-scene-surpassing-boston%E2%80%99s-not-so-fast/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:39:58 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I spent a bunch of time in New York City last month, including extended hobnobbing with local VCs and entrepreneurs. One thing I heard over and over again was how the locals would soon leapfrog Boston in terms of entrepreneurial activity and venture capital funding - positioning themselves in the coveted runner-up position behind perennial leader Silicon Valley.The sentiment was fueled by a varie<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada Now Somewhat Less Anti-Startup]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/canada-now-somewhat-less-anti-startup/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/canada-now-somewhat-less-anti-startup/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:13:54 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Canada isn't shy about making life difficult for startups, and we've had one or two personal brawls with the country as well. But a change in Canadian tax law last week is designed to spur U.S. venture investments in Canadian startups and make Canada less of a leper colony for tech entrepreneurs.The change allows foreign investors in most Canadian startups to avoid "literally hundreds of pages of<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Startup Visa update]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/startup-visa-update/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/startup-visa-update/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:21:12 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin America's excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. This trip was designed to build momentum following last week's announcement that Senators Kerry and Lugar have introduced a Senate bill to make the Startup Visa a reality: the Startup Visa Act of 2010. This follows <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Angel investing portfolio scenario planner spreadsheet]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/angel-investing-portfolio-scenario-planner-spreadsheet/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/angel-investing-portfolio-scenario-planner-spreadsheet/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:20:29 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Several friends have told me angel investing is not a good way to make money. If you can do the YC/Ron Conway strategy that is one thing, and if you just want to give back that's another, but doing it at my level is a waste of money.I do want to give back, but I also want to make money with my angel investing. So I've been thinking a lot about strategies to employ to fulfill both goals. To that e<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Applications open for OAF Silicon Valley, April 16th]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/applications-open-for-oaf-silicon-valley-april-16th/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/applications-open-for-oaf-silicon-valley-april-16th/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:45:43 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Right off the heels of the inaugural OAF San Francisco event (which you may have read about here or here or here) we're stoked to be kicking off OAF Silicon Valley on April  16th with none other than Dave McClure and Shervin Pishevar as the Silicon Valley chapter heads. As usual, this event will bring together five great startups (apply here), a handful of great angels (apply here), and five seat<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Isn’t Silicon Valley, and That’s Why They Like It]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/new-york-isn%E2%80%99t-silicon-valley-and-that%E2%80%99s-why-they-like-it/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/new-york-isn%E2%80%99t-silicon-valley-and-that%E2%80%99s-why-they-like-it/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:36:45 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just another Sunday brunch set in New York. But members of this group had braved knee-deep snow to gab about cutting-edge ideas and as they introduced themselves the roll call sounded like a Who's Who of digital start-ups: Foursquare, <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A founder has to do only two things]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/a-founder-has-to-do-only-two-things/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/a-founder-has-to-do-only-two-things/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:19:32 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[By marketing, I actually mean "customer development" (as Manu pointed out in the comments). I mean the founder has to know how to sell. This means he/she should be eager to talk to customers, understand the real problems, understand whether his/her solution actually solves their problems or not, and simultaneously improve/talk/market/make happen whatever it takes to sell that product or service.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What I Learned Raising A Million Dollars For a Startup With No Business Plan and No Financial Projections]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/what-i-learned-raising-a-million-dollars-for-a-startup-with-no-business-plan-and-no-financial-projections/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/what-i-learned-raising-a-million-dollars-for-a-startup-with-no-business-plan-and-no-financial-projections/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:15:40 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For years now I've read startup and VC blogs just like many of you. I read a ton of posts about what my business plans should say or how to do financial projections. But in the end, that stuff was always painful for me. I've always been more of a doer than a planner, and more of a boostrapper than a fundraiser. The thought of wasting valuable business time working on a business plan made me want <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart people can rationalize anything]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/smart-people-can-rationalize-anything/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/smart-people-can-rationalize-anything/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:12:41 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the things we were able to do at Electric Communities was to attract one of the highest density collections of scary-smart people I've ever seen gathered in one place before. There are a lot of nice things about working with smart people. For one thing, they're not stupid. Working with stupid people just sucks. Smart people are good if you need to do a lot of really hard things, and we did<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask the attorney: What the heck is Class F stock?]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/ask-the-attorney-what-the-heck-is-class-f-stock/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/ask-the-attorney-what-the-heck-is-class-f-stock/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:17:05 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[My buddy and I are launching a new venture, and we've read some articles on the web about incorporating in Delaware and other things we need to do from the legal side.  One issue that came up that we don't understand is Class F stock, which we read about on a couple of blogs.  What is Class F stock and do you think we should be utilizing it?<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Look Inside the Life of News Corp. Mogul and Raging Septuagenarian Rupert Murdoch]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/a-look-inside-the-life-of-news-corp-mogul-and-raging-septuagenarian-rupert-murdoch/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/a-look-inside-the-life-of-news-corp-mogul-and-raging-septuagenarian-rupert-murdoch/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:10:31 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night.On Saturday, January 9, Rupert Murdoch was on his Boeing 737 returning to New York from a business trip to Los Angeles when he learned that the New York Times had just posted a long profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes on its website, one that he knew was going to cause a giant heada<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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