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Good Fundraising Story and Perspective

I spent some time this afternoon hanging around with my friend Jonathan Weber who runs the online publication New West: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains.  He said he’d been asked about the story of starting New West so many times that he’d written a FAQ titled The New West FAQ for Online Community Journalism […]

I spent some time this afternoon hanging around with my friend Jonathan Weber who runs the online publication New West: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains.  He said he’d been asked about the story of starting New West so many times that he’d written a FAQ titled The New West FAQ for Online Community Journalism Entrepreneurs.  I find FAQ / stories / essays like Jonathan’s thousands of times more instructive than my pontifications, so I encourage you to take a look, especially if you are an online community journalism entrepreneur.

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Spreadsheets To Model Cap Tables

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Paul Graham on Fundraising

Today’s great post is from Paul Graham and is titled A Fundraising Survival Guide.  Paul runs Y Combinator and has been involved in numerous early stage financings since starting Y Combinator several years ago.  Worth a long, slow, and detailed read for any entrepreneur raising money for their startup.

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Should Companies Solicit Multiple VCs, or Just One While Fundraising?

Question: If you found out that a startup who approached you was soliciting funding from other sources, would you be less likely to invest in the opportunity? Would you encourage or discourage new startups to negotiate a better deal by looking for more than one VC? Our Take: As much as we’d like all our […]

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