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Oh, go ahead and ask for $5M for your startup.  

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First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. ” The post Oh, go ahead and ask for $5M for your startup. Four reasons you should reconsider. appeared first on Official website of Dave Berkus.

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

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The best way to get across what your startup does is through video, too. Much has changed in online video and many startups are stuck in a metaphor created 5-7 years ago. When video was becoming more popular a startup emerged to help startups tell their stories through video called Epipheo. Stories are everything.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

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I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. I talk about failure a lot because I think it can be tremendously instructive and I think that success without failure often masks underlying lessons.

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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

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Didn’t I make myself clear about celebrities & startups ? She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Turns out she’s done this startup thing before. And they’re both full time committed to their startup – Moonfrye. Startup Advice'

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Startups Are for Doers. But trust me when I say that my observations across many startups (and other companies, frankly) is that not enough time goes into thinking. I have my best creative break-throughs this way. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. Board Meetings. Conferences.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. Startup Lessons'

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