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Angel Financing, Financings, Startups, Use of Lawyers, VCs
There are some thoughtful comments -- from lawyers! -- on Fred Wilson's post of yesterday on the various sets of seed funding documents now available o (Read More)
William Carleton on Mar, 04 at 10:32 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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Washington Legislators Consider Ending Sales Tax Exemption for Custom Software
As part of a package of taxes being considered today by a Washington State legislative committee, the current exemption of custom software from Wa (Read More)
William Carleton on Mar, 02 at 10:29 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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Entrepreneurs’ Prior Lives, Episode 2: Michael Cann, Investment Banker
It's too early to find a pattern, but in Episode 2 of Entrepreneur's Prior Lives, Michael Cann treats us with the same candor Joe Harb showed in the ro (Read More)
William Carleton on Mar, 02 at 10:29 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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Three Methods to Ongoing Innovation
BY F3FUNDIT Innovation is an ongoing process that your company should be taking a strong stake in, and as an entrepreneur it should always be on your m (Read More)
f3fundit on Mar, 02 at 9:47 AM | 1 Like Ilike2
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Is your idea viable? Test the waters before jumping in
This may be largely dependent on industry but, if you have the possibility to actually test out a concept before going into full scale business plan wr (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 26 at 5:58 AM | 1 Like Ilike2
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Free Consulting for Startups, you bet.
BY F3FUNDIT Free Startup Consulting? So you've got a problem, there's a process and you just can't seem to understand how to get around that process wh (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 25 at 9:47 AM | 1 Like Ilike2
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The Need for Competitive Intelligence
Competitive Intelligence? What's competitive intelligence? According to Wikipedia "Competitive intelligence (CI) is the action of defining, gather (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 23 at 5:40 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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How do you start a Biotech Company?
How do you start a Biotech Company? Good question, for the most part it's like anything else, you have a good idea, you write a business plan using a w (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 23 at 5:37 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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VIDEO Series: The Invisible Revolution – Biotechnology
Biotech is dead, long live biotech. The Wall Street Journal claimed in 2009 that it was a dire time for the biotech industry. New firms had little cash (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 23 at 4:09 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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Entrepreneurs’ Prior Lives: a Podcast Series
I'm excited today to launch "Entrepreneurs’ Prior Lives," a podcast brought to you by this blog and by wac6arts.com. The first episode (Read More)
William Carleton on Feb, 22 at 9:29 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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Who should pay the fees, Startups or Investor?
this is only an excerpt from the entire article, if you want to read the entire thing please clickez ici  Who pays the fees, should it be the star (Read More)
f3fundit on Feb, 10 at 11:09 PM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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Startup Tips, venture funding 101
I wanted to FYI the audience here on another article I wrote earlier this week on my personal blog. These articles and the ideas behind them often (Read More)
barryhurd on Feb, 10 at 3:29 PM | 4 Likes Ilike2
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Getting the Size of the Early Stage Note Round Right
So your venture needs capital, but for one good reason or another, or a combination of them, you are not going to "price" the company and rai (Read More)
William Carleton on Feb, 07 at 7:43 PM | 4 Likes Ilike2
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Is your time worth it? Pre-Money Valuation and the Burger King Opportunity Cost
You have to be thinking to yourself, what on earth does Burger King have to do with startups. Well, a few months back I was talking with a colleague re (Read More)
f3fundit on Jan, 29 at 5:35 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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We need a leader for sellers online
We live, play, and shop in a market self-absorbed with following the status-quo. We no longer have the desire to look for change around us, but are mor (Read More)
Addoway.com on Jan, 28 at 9:51 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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The Attack on Reg D: A FAQ
What is the attack on Reg D? The attack on Reg D is contained in a bill proposed by Sen. Christopher Dodd that would do two things: (a) Senator Dodd's (Read More)
William Carleton on Jan, 26 at 3:41 PM | 4 Likes Ilike2
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Automatic Contracts (and the Cause of Bringing the Legal Profession Forward a Century or Two)
Last week, Ben Hatten of Legal River e-mailed to let me know his company had just released a "terms of service generator" and a "privacy (Read More)
William Carleton on Jan, 24 at 2:43 PM | 5 Likes Ilike2
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Startup Satrudays on F3FundIt - One Day One Startup
One thing about providing a good service to all our readers is to try and provide it on an almost continuous basis, and while we do talk about starups, (Read More)
f3fundit on Jan, 23 at 5:40 AM | 1 Like Ilike2
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Self Promotion
StickyLife.com is a great source for anyone, but it's an extra special place for those who are looking to create their own self promotional items witho (Read More)
StickyLife.com on Jan, 21 at 8:39 AM | 1 Like Ilike2
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eCommerce users part with the cart over privacy and security
Shopping cart abandonment continues to pose a huge problem for internet companies. Research has indicated that both privacy and safety concerns are the (Read More)
Addoway.com on Jan, 19 at 9:47 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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Criteria for Selecting Web Startup Lawyers
Matt Heaton has pointed me to Giff Constable's effort to amass a list of good web startup lawyers.I don't know, and cannot personally vouch for, any of (Read More)
William Carleton on Jan, 18 at 4:50 PM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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11 Surefire Ways to Make Your Startup Fail
Here are just a few ways to completely and utterly dig your startup into the ground, as such read them, and do what you can to avoid them. 1. Have a po (Read More)
f3fundit on Jan, 18 at 9:10 AM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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The Attack on Reg D: An Update
Suzanne Barlyn had a good follow-up article in the Wall Street Journal Online yesterday. In it, she makes the point that Sen. Dodd's proposed financial (Read More)
William Carleton on Jan, 16 at 10:45 AM | 2 Likes Ilike2
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Startups & Social Equity (Or, How Startups Can Effect Social Change in Ways Governments Can't)
My girlfriend and I heard Richard Wilkinson talk yesterday at the Department of Communications building on the University of Washington campus. From&nb (Read More)
William Carleton on Jan, 10 at 7:06 PM | 3 Likes Ilike2
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UntitledStartup.com - The Anti-Stealth Mode Startup
Some startups like to operate on "stealth mode" before launching a product, and then there's UntitledStartup.com who is operating in "an (Read More)
Matt Heaton on Jan, 07 at 11:50 AM | 11 Likes Ilike2