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Startup Sales: Overcoming Yourself to Win

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by Eric | Oct 1, 2010, 8:40am EST

Startup Sales.  Today, I would like to tell you the story of a friend of mine who works and does very well in sales.  Let’s call him Phil.  Phil works in the financial services industry selling financial planning.  For those of you like me that grew up in the financial services industry, we all know that [...]

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Startup Lessons From a CFO

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by Eric | Sep 29, 2010, 7:57am EST

Starting a business is all about balance.  When we focus on creating a new company, we often begin by creating a product and then we focus on how to make it viable.  Although making a product can be very fun and challenging, making money can often be real work. Recently, I was reading an article [...]

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DHH: How I Learned To Program

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by Cameron | Sep 23, 2010, 10:24am EST

David Heinemeier Hansson – creator of Ruby on Rails, a partner at 37signals, and a NYT best-selling author – has written an interesting post over on the Signals vs. Noise blog about how he learned to program. It’s a quick little piece, but worth the read if you have, or ever plan to dabble in [...]

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Startup Funding: What Exactly Not to Say

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by Eric | Sep 2, 2010, 7:00am EST

Funding a startup is tough business.  I have written in the past lots of articles on what to say as well as what to include. Additionally, I wrote a piece back in Feburary entitled: “Startup Business Plan — How an Investor will Evaluate “Your” plan.” Today, I’d like to include an article penned by Cynthia [...]

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Startup Funding: Should You Allow a Liquidation Preference?

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by Eric | Aug 6, 2010, 7:49am EST

Startup funding is all about the deal. As with many disciplines of finance, choosing the right terms for your startup can go in many different directions. Along with valuation, I cannot think of a single term more significant than the “liquidation preference.” I’m a big fan of Fred Wilson, and recently he weighed in on [...]

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Interview with Founder of GitHub.com: Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud

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by Cameron | Aug 4, 2010, 6:25am EST

Great interview conducted by 37signals with Chris Wanstrath, CEO and Co-Founder of GitHub. This article is part of 37signals’ “Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud” series which profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable. This is a must read if you’re thinking about starting a business in the tech/web space anytime [...]

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How 12 CEOs & Founders are Leveraging Web Video

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by Eric | Aug 3, 2010, 9:47am EST

Clearly web based video is taking over the masses. I’ve noticed that when people in their twenties get together to check out something new or funny, almost without exception, it is in front of a Youtube or other video. As my Father used to say, “The trend is your friend.” We all had better be [...]

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