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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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. I can personally attest that it’s very easy for a startup CEO to feel alone and isolated. Remember that you are not alone.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

Both Sides of the Table

I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. I have even had to get physical security advice from some of the crazy. I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as Finally, if I answered every email I’d never have time to point out how mindless Adam’s advice was. No, it’s not fun.

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This Angel Investor Shares 11 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Raise Smart Money

StartupNation

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Franklin D.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs.

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Advancing your business with the help of an accelerator

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

When emerging entrepreneur David Davila started to develop his idea of a family business selling coffee, one of his friends recognized that he had a great idea and encouraged him to apply to Union Kitchen, a startup accelerator in the United States. Don’t worry about trying to reinvent the wheel.

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The idea that university degrees don’t matter is a Silicon Valley fantasy

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley’s undisputed leading startup accelerator is Y Combinator. The best advice is followed by those who give it — only then do you know it is battle-tested. If you aspire to be a unicorn founder and rock the world through entrepreneurship, the most effective launchpad is a top-tier university degree.

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The latecomer advantage in startups

TechCrunch

In order for entrepreneurship to feel exciting and welcoming — not even be, but feel — new needs to be one of its loudest characteristics. It’s partially obvious: When you’ve done this whole entrepreneurship thing before, you understand what mistakes to avoid and seamlessly know which investors to dodge. At least most of you do!

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