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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:27 CST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The US Startup Visa: A boon for dismayed, frustrated British entrepreneurs]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/the-us-startup-visa-a-boon-for-dismayed-frustrated-british-entrepreneurs/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:27 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I've been reading a lot about the proposed US Startup Visa. Right now, one of the biggest things that prevents smart entrepreneurs (British or otherwise)from going to live and work in Silicon Valley, is the Visa issue. Sure, most nationalities can get 3 months worth of time in the States, but after that, they need to leave and come back again… and thus begins the dance with the immigration chaps <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How the Campuses Helped Ruin California's Economy]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/how-the-campuses-helped-ruin-californias-economy/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:42 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[All across the country there were demonstrations on March 4 by students (and some faculty) against cuts in higher education funding, but inevitably attention focused on California, where the modern genre originated in 1964. I joined the University of California faculty in 1966 and so have watched a good many of them, but have never seen one less impressive that this year's. In 1964 there was focu<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Next Big Thing - The top 50 Venture Backed Companies]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/the-next-big-thing-the-top-50-venture-backed-companies/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:21:02 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The rankings were calculated based on how each company scored in the following components: the track record of success for the venture-capital investors who sit on the company's board (Board Ranking); the amount of capital raised by the company over the last three years, in comparison to its peers (Total Equity Ranking); the track record of success for the company's founders and chief executive (<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/teaching-entrepreneurship-%E2%80%93-by-getting-out-of-the-building/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/teaching-entrepreneurship-%E2%80%93-by-getting-out-of-the-building/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:18:03 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the classes I teach in the engineering school at Stanford is E145: the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship, an introduction to building a scalable startup. While the class is open to everyone at the University, we want to teach science and engineering undergraduates how they can take a technical idea and turn it into a profitable and scalable company.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VCs & Starter Stock - Why & How to Ask for "F Shares"]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/vcs-starter-stock-why-how-to-ask-for-f-shares/</link>
<comments>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/vcs-starter-stock-why-how-to-ask-for-f-shares/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:14:23 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There are tax reasons to get Starter Stock as part of your initial stock grant. Talk with your lawyer to learn more (or, if they don't know much, ask Orrick). Any entrepreneurs or investors out there who want to comment about their experiences with starter stock? :)<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 things I “knew” (or should have known) before starting a company, but didn’t fully understand until now]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/5-things-i-%E2%80%9Cknew%E2%80%9D-or-should-have-known-before-starting-a-company-but-didn%E2%80%99t-fully-understand-until-now/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:12:45 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I founded WePay with Bill Clerico in August 2008, with the simple goal of making it easy for groups to collect and manage money online. We were accepted in YCombinator in May 2009, and raised just under $2 million from August Capital, Max Levchin, and a few other well-know angel investors last December.I can't say much about running a company post-financing because we have only been doing it for <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship and Schools]]></title>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/entrepreneurship-and-schools/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.startupbug.com/Startingup/start-up-advice/</link>
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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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