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Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money
February 18, 2010
The following is a guest post from Andy Singleton, the founder of Assemba. Assembla provides online workspaces for distributed software teams, and helps many startups build their…
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9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital
February 8, 2010
As the market improves, my guess is that many of you will likely be thinking about raising funding for your company. With my latest startup, I’m now a venture-backed startup founder…
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Why Raising Venture Capital Requires Helmets and Shovels [cartoon]
September 18, 2009
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Burning Cash Is For Toasting Marshmallows [cartoon]
August 10, 2009
I’m going to go on a bit of a rant here. I’m miffed that the industry term for the process whereby startups invest in building their businesses is called “burning cash”. If your…
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Why Raising VC Funding Does Not Equal Success
May 20, 2008
My startup, HubSpot (which provides online marketing for small business) recently released the news that it has closed a Series B round of VC funding of $12 million, bringing our…
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Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding
May 16, 2008
If you've been following OnStartups.com for any period of time, you likely know that I'm not a big advocate of startup founders going out and trying to raise venture funding in the…
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Scalable Funding: Can Venture Capital Be More Like Amazon EC2?
May 12, 2008
I'm becoming an increasingly big fan of infrastructure services like Amazon's EC2 and S3. The reason is simple: You pay for what you need at around the time that you need it. This is…
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VentureHacks: Peeking Inside The Blackbox Of Venture Capital
May 7, 2007
For those of you that are regular readers, you know that as a policy, I don't often do site reviews of other startup-related websites -- let alone pour gushing praise on a single one.…
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Fatal Distraction: The True Cost Of Venture Capital
March 23, 2006
I’ve had several requests in the past week to post an article with my views on venture capital for software startups. This was driven partly because I often make casual and vague…
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