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by fnazeeri 18y ago
This advice works well in the very early stages of a startup, but focus is needed once you have done your "market research." To continue the analogy, you should not date more than one girl once you are going steady. If you want to read mor
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Starting (and exiting) a company at the right time is a skill (not just dumb luck)(altgate.com)
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Startup Failures On The Rise(altgate.com)
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Know any great RoR developers/shops?
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Venture Capital is Broken(altgate.com)
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Another VC How-To Site For Entrepreneurs(altgate.com)
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"Translate Server Error" A popular Chinese cafe(adweek.blogs.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
The key is getting a 3rd party to the table. For example, if P&G were expressing interest... It reminds me of a case from b-school titled, "Up for Auction: Malta Bargains with Great Britain" which is worth a read if you can track it d
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Jason Calacanis on "The Death Spiral"(altgate.com)
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Lessons from the last crash(altgate.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
eMarketer has it http://www.emarketer.com/SiteSearch.aspx?arg=small+business+... If you contact me through my blog (altgate.com) I can track that number down for you...
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
Dan Nye (LinkedIN CEO) did a brilliant thing a few months ago by painting his investors into a corner... http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/10/dan-nye-is-a-modern-day-...
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2008 Startup Compensation Survey Results(altgate.com)
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Looking for cash? Call on small VCs.(informationarbitrage.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
There is actually a pretty detailed annual survey of VC-backed startup executive comp. The data covers the top 10-ish execs at hundreds of surveyed companies and reports it by revenue, headcount, capital raised, geography and more. If you
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
Nate Silver (the guy behind 538) is a pretty famous baseball statistician who has applied his trade to politics and polling. It's politics for geeks. I wrote more at http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/10/nate-silver---t.html He just starte
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
+1
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
I think: [capital] <--> [financial system] <--> [projects] better reflects reality in that inflows/outflows of capital to/from projects are funneled through the financial system. For example, investors (capital) are trying
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Triage: What Your Investors Are Doing Right Now(altgate.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
The three points above all refer to the financial system. I'm not entirely sold on this "it's not just the financial system it's systemic" argument. The way I see it, the overall setup looks like this: [capital] <--> [financial sys
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Solar Car Raycing Saves The World(altgate.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
This has been part of his tax plan since at least last year. It is pretty vague however (see section II on page 3 of his tax plan http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINA... ), for example he doesn't define what a "sta
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Media Uptick Rule?(altgate.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
Where can I buy some financial Dramamine?
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Japan's Nikkei down 10%(finance.yahoo.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
The cheapest, fastest product ever built is the one never made. Good market research will help you identify the customer you're aiming to help and their specific problem. In addition to "academic" market research, consider doing "field wor
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
That is an absolutely terrible, myopic analysis. Instead of saying that our nation's education system is not adequately preparing students for college, it's making the argument that college is taking advantage of unprepared students. That
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
In a lot of ways this is an indictment of "social engineering." But I'd argue there are other factors at work here since "easing the requirements" is the equivalent of holding the door open...the lenders are the ones that walked through...
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Police Charge VC In Hit-And-Run(altgate.com)
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by fnazeeri 18y ago
$200MM payout to top 3 MLCO exec? Seems like found money that ought to be taxed at something other than cap gains rate to me... http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/top-3-merrill-lynch-execs...

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