Questions
What is the difference between a VC and an Angel?
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Ok, I'm about to start an entrepreneurship club in my college (Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brazil). The main reason for that project is that we students don't have any entrepreneurial culture and...
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I am looking for recommendatins from the successfull entreprenurs on this forum to advise me on the best software technology platform to develop my web2 webapp on. The web2 app will potentially be...
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Derek's question inspired another question... for a small startup (bigger than a one-man shop, but less than a dozen) are interns worthwhile? In my experience, I've run into a few...
Which state(s) would you relocate to if you were thinking of starting a startup?. Why do you think those states are 'Startup Friendly'?
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When a VC says they want to do a "$3M on $3M" deal what does that mean?
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"They" have always said that, as an individual, we should have enough in cash savings to cover 3-6 months of living expenses. Have you heard of a rule of thumb for (small) businesses? How do you...
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I'm curious if anyone has great examples to share of their own startups or others achieving highly successful and visible media attention, customer attraction or general brand awareness. A few that...
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I'm working in the infant stages of a SaaS platform and we're working on estimating cost. Right now our hosting and bandwidth expenditures are relatively low as we have only one customer, but we...
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I am creating a blog for our startup, and imagine the blog would be a great place to post on product news, product tips, and our companies attitudes to various technologies and events that are...
If you were able to choose the ideal team of mentors for your company and you could choose anyone, who would they be and why? Note: This is a dream team, like fantasy football. CEO's? Steve...
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What are the best podcasts for startups? Not only covering technology, but also legal issues, finance issues etc? I love listening to podcasts, I can walk or run at the same time as learning...
I'm curious what peoples definitions are of a startup company? When does a company cease to simply be a startup? Does it have to be tech related?
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Do you think it’s possible to do it all? Myself and entrepreneur Martin Bjergegaard are making it our mission to find this out in hopes of writing a book outlining the lessons of our findings. We...
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I'm in the process of evaluating resumes for a web marketing / project management position. I've never considered myself very good at interviewing. Beware, my question is multi-faceted, so don't...
Any positive/negative experiences? Advice? I personally feel that my professional life as a developer is now more difficult, it feels harder to explain things and also to prove my worth without...
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I would like to know your views on fighting clones. For example look at these web pages. polldaddy.com/signup sissurvey.net/signup.aspx It is pretty clear that Polldaddy launched poll service...
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I use Wordpress for my primary blog. But I often want to write a few quick thoughts down that don't belong on my main blog. I want something that's easy to contribute, easy to edit. Any views?
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Throughout the life of a business negotiation is a key skill for the founders and strategists working on it. Often, however, having no business experience, founders fall into traps put by the...
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I use a simple formula to define value . Benefits - Costs = Value But the key thing to note is that what you think are benefits for the customers might not be perceived as benefits. Asking them...
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