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Questions you have to answer correctly to get funding for your startup
Fundraising questions for startups: 1. Why do you need investment? 2. What does your service do? 3. Is there any competition? 4. Can you...
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How To: Spend your investors’ money
I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups. Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me , raised $500,000 from Foundry Group . Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the…
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Square Drops Per Transaction Fee
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My failed bootstrapped startup: a retrospective.
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A Visitor's Guide to Silicon Valley
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combina…
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How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
Noah Kagan built three multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in green. (Photo: Brandon Wells) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA. It was 2007. We were both in hoodies, had a shared penchant for the F-bomb and burritos…
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I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
Background In January 2010 I launched Preceden, a free web-based timeline tool. In May I migrated to a freemium plan, where users could add a certain number of events for free but had to upgrade to…
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Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here
I am no longer writing a book. The Lean Startup Book is done. Finally, really, truly, done. On July 4, I celebrated Independence Day by m...
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How to make $250 a day (and get banned from the Android Market)
A few weeks ago I did something which, in retrospect, was probably rather stupid. But it was surprisingly successful while it lasted. As I wrote earlier, I'
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Should you launch at a conference?
Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, i…
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The Bad Board Member
Over the last 40 years the U.S. has evolved an entrepreneurial ecosystem with two of the most unlikely partners – venture capital investors and technology entrepreneurs. This alliance has led to an…
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The Next Bubble - Don't Get Fooled Again
My friend, Ben Horowitz, and I debate the tech bubble in The Economist. This post originally appeared as part 1 of 3 ———————————…