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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPointStartup Funds without PlansGreat stuff! Anyone who wants to raise seed funding should read this article and adhere to the advice in it. A bullseye!TrueI totally agree with your opinion of business plans and getting an...
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Discussion threads 2007-07-10

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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
Before we get too deep into this, let me clarify two things. When I say without a "plan," I mean without a formally written business plan – not that you should be clueless about what you want to do. And, when I say startup funding, I’m talking more...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Dharmesh Shah, Microsoft PowerPoint, Entrepreneurialism, Finance, General, Wisdom
Blog posts 2007-03-26
DeepDyve Raising $5 Million First Round For 'Complex' Data Search Engine
DeepDyve, a search startup that can take queries of up to 20 words long, is in the process of raising a $5 million first institutional round, VentureWire reports. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup previously raised $9 million in angel funding, which it used for product development. The new money will...
Tags: Search Engine, Start-up, Search, Product Development, Blogging, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-10-05
TV Startup Sezmi Closes on $30 Million Funding, Even As It Lays Off Staff
Sezmi, the ambitious TV startup founded by Phil Wiser, former CTO of Sony (NYSE: SNE) America, has raised about $28 million in new funding, and aiming to close this third round at $50 million. However, the hopes of raising more might have to be tempered for a while with...
Tags: Round, Start-up, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Media, TV, VC+M&A, Venture Capital, Rafat Ali, Sony Corp.
External links 2008-11-24
Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?
I came across an article recently titled “Researchers Uncover Best Bosses’ Success Secret”. I was hoping to find some revealing insight about what makes great bosses. Unfortunately, I really didn’t glean that from the article. Basically, the...
Tags: Iâ€, General, I&rsquo, m, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Dharmesh Shah, software
Blog posts 2007-02-05
Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?
I came across an article recently titled “ResearchersUncover Best Bosses’ Success Secret”. I was hoping tofind some revealing insight about what makes great bosses. Unfortunately,I really didn’t glean that from the article. Basically, the point the article makes is that the mostsuccessful bosses tend to find a good...
Tags: General, Iâ€, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, software
Blog posts 2007-02-05
Location-Aware Startup SimpleGeo Raises $1.5 Million
SimpleGeo has raised $1.5 million in funding from a roster of big-name investors, we have confirmed with the company. The startup’s technology is used by developers to easily make their web and mobile apps location-aware Read more about it here. The round was led by First Round Capital. Angel...
Tags: Aware, Founder, SimpleGeo, Mergers & Acquisitions, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-30
Slacker's Still Raising Money?But Ditches Its Device In Favor Of Apps
After raising over $70 million to develop and sell its G2 portable music device, music startup Slacker is giving up on it—choosing instead, to focus on building a mobile app-based streaming business. President Jim Cady, who’s been running the company since founder and CEO Dennis Mudd stepped down in...
Tags: Mobile, Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-10-22
Seattle nanotech startup secures first round of funding.
By Luke Timmerman, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 11--Nanostring Technologies has the raw ingredients of a startup with potential: An invention with potentially broad uses. Young proteges of biotech icon Leroy Hood. Brand-name investors. A proven CEO. ...
Tags: Seattle Times Co.
Research articles 2004-08-11
Spotify Close To Getting Its Funding, Between £20 Million to £30 Million
Spotify's recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for. The startup is thought to have landed at least the £20 million or so it was seeking, making for what's described as a "significant valuation"....
Tags: Advertisement, Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-04
Tauntr Raising $1.5 Million For Trash-Talking Sports Property
Tauntr, an online and mobile property aimed at letting sports fans “talk trash” to each other, has raised $1.1 million worth of a $1.5 million first round of funding, per an SEC filing. The startup did not immediately respond to a request for more information.Tauntr was first developed by...
Tags: Mobile, Agency, Social Media, Corporate Governance, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Entertainment, Sports, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Video, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-04
Startup Scam: Paying to Pitch Puts Power Players on the Warpath
Over the weekend, the blogosphere has seen a small but profound eruption of wrath over angel investor groups that charge startups to pitch them. Jason Calacanis' blog post on the topic, wherein he went as far as calling out these groups by name and posting...
Tags: Fee
News items 2009-10-12
iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale
As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup iMeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move possibly engineering and sales, whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible...
Tags: Warner Music Group Corp., MySpace, iMeem, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Search, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, News Corp., Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-11-18
Southborough, Mass., Tech Startup Firm to Close Operations.
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 19--Despite raising $165 million in venture capital funding, Celox Networks, a Southborough start-up making advanced Internet switches, confirmed yesterday it will shut down operations tomorrow because of the protracted...
Tags: Boston Globe, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony
Research articles 2002-12-19
Endovalve Meets Early Milestones; Seeks $8 Million Series B Funding
Medical Device Startup Also Creates Scientific Advisory Board, Adds to Board PRINCETON, N.J. -- Endovalve, Inc., a cardiovascular device company developing the first percutaneous valve-replacement system to treat mitral regurgitation, has reached early milestones and is now actively raising $8 million in a Series B financing round that would...
Tags: Dr., HEALTHCARE, University of Pennsylvania
Research articles 2007-02-26
Inside Venture Capital: Do VCs Make Less Than You Think?
For some reason, I find myself reading a fair number of VCblogs. This is mostly out of curiosity. Though Ive neverraised venture capital for a startup before, I find the industry interesting. Whats disappointing about VC bloggers is how few VCsactually write about the internal workings of...
Tags: General, entrepreneur, venture capital, Entrepreneurship, VCs Make
Blog posts 2007-01-27
Aptera on the Skids: Electric 2e on Hold Amid Layoffs, Dash for Cash
"Aptera's production and delivery will be tied directly to funding," said Aptera Motors CEO Paul Wilbur in a release from the ultra high-efficiency vehicle startup late yesterday. That very mild assessment belies the reality that Aptera is peering across the Valley of Death, where many ventures die for lack...
Tags: company, Investor, production, Loan, vehicle startup
News items 2009-11-19
StockTwits Raises $3 Million In Second Round
Only seven months after raising $800,000 in a first round, StockTwits—which lets investors track conversations about stocks on Twitter—- has brought in another $3 million in funding. The round was led by Foundry Group; existing investor True Ventures also participated. Since May, when it announced its first round, StockTwits...
Tags: Round, StockTwits, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-12-02
Warner gets back into bed with Imeem
Warner Music Group is reportedly raising its equity stake in music-streaming startup Imeem in exchange for accepting lower royalties from music played on the site. The deal comes a month after Warner appeared to abandon Imeem by writing off its entire USD16m investment in the music service. ...
Tags: Online Music, Warner Music Group Corp., imeem, George Mitton
Articles 2009-06-15
Energy Roundup: StatoilHydro Explores North Sea, Barclays Slashes NG Forecast, Merger Madness, and More
Pronounce this: NPSA consents to Vigdis, Tune, Yttergryta projects in North Sea -- The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority has let StatoilHydro use offshore rigs and facilities for operations near Norway for exploration purposes. The fields involved are the Vigdis, Tune, and Yttergryta. The submersible platform, Borgland Dolphin, will be involved...
Tags: Biofuel, Merger, North Sea, Analyst, Barclays Plc., BCF, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-10-15
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