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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Here is advice I collected for dealing with the stress of running a startup: 1. Brad Feld, a partner at Foundry Group and investor in many successful startups, gave me this piece of advice. Remember that you are not alone.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Those were the dog days of entrepreneurship. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. source: Capital IQ. But it will end.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. It’s that simple. He’s been at it since 2005.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience! On January 15, 2001, then-college student Dries Buytaert released Drupal 1.0.0, February 17: Steve Loughlin (Accel) + Jason Boehmig (Ironclad). Image Credits: Acquia.

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What was Nike like as a startup?

Unvalidated Learnings

Johnson, the company’s first employee, built an epistolary community of fellow runners (a forum of sorts), who, in exchange for his expert advice, would provide him with invaluable product feedback: “ Unlike me, however, most customers came to depend on Johnson’s letters. Because this is the true spirit of entrepreneurship.

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