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Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

How to Give Your Startup Idea The Sniff Test

I have a certain friend who called me  a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. “What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? I’m going to start a website to offer this service!” […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
13 Feb 2012
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The #1 Angel Investing Mistake

The list of angel investing mistakes is an awfully long one, equally as long as the list for liquid investments, plus a bunch more.  On the too-aggressive side: believing the hockey stick, ignoring the management holes, and overestimating product acceptance.  On the too-conservative side: my favorite startup myth, thinking that . You Have Competition – Ellen Weber” href=”http://videos.gust.com/video/You-have-competition;search%3Atag%3A%22know-thy-market%22″>because competitors exist, […]
Bob Rice
Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital
10 Feb 2012
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Veering Off the Beaten Path Into Murky Legal Waters

Path, a high-profile San Francisco social media startup, ignited a firestorm this week with the revelation that its mobile application uploads users’ entire iPhone address books to the company’s servers without their knowledge or permission.  The practice, discovered by Singapore developer Arun Thampi, provoked outrage within the user community and was broadly condemned by the tech business press.  Jon Mitchell at ReadWriteWeb wrote that […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
9 Feb 2012
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Do You Know When To Bootstrap and When Not?

A couple of days ago a friend asked me whether I’m in favor of startups getting angel investment. He pointed out this post on this blog, which is me writing about five good reasons not to seek investment. My answer is that – like so much else in this field – it depends on the specific situation. […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
8 Feb 2012
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National CleanTech Syndication Kick-off at ACA Summit

The Funding Gap between typical angel rounds ($250-$750K) and average venture round of $7-8 million is really difficult to bridge.   Over the past five years, angel group leaders have found that syndicating deals with neighboring angel groups and other early stage investors has several distinct advantages: More investors can be made aware of interesting deal to close […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
7 Feb 2012
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