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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

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Rustand says he’s had calls from more than 300 business leaders at small and medium-sized companies looking for advice. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. The post Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Startup Advice' I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. you don’t ask, you don’t get! )

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

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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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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk. I know because I have been the beneficiary of their advice for years and have appreciated it. If all else fails, angel-load away! It won’t be.

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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

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This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. So you combine my generation of cynics with the GenY generation of &# entitlement&# (until 2008 – you only saw BOOM years other than a short dot-com blip). I’m sure of that.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent. And resist the temptation to extend thy middle finger.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

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In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 My advice in my post Should You Even Raise VC still holds. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!)

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