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Squawk Box October 10: Friday Wrap

October 11, 2008

First up — the economy.  On Wednesday and Thursday, VC’s in the US started to warn their portfolio companies to tighten belts.  Are there safe ports in this storm? Which companies are most likely to crash? BlackBerry Bold quality has been another issue this week.  AT&T have delayed deployment, Orange has dropped deployment, and  the [...]

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Squawk Box September 30 – Credit Crunch continues, and Cloud Computing

September 30, 2008

We continued our discussion of economics today, the day after the single largest drop on North American in history.  The markets are up today, after president bush called on US lawmakers to pass the bailout package, but there is still a lot of speculation about what this will mean for companies and investors. We started [...]

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Venture Capital isn't the only way.

October 24, 2007

If you're raising money in Canada, Suzi Dingwall-Williams has published a summary of some of the ways that a startup can finance itself.  The key message?  Venture funding isn't the only way.  In fact, there are many ways to raise money. Venture capital may be one of the toughest in today's environment, where reportedly VC [...]

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fbFund: grants to build Facebook apps.

September 18, 2007

It must suck to be Bay Partners or Altura right now.  After tons of great press about their new Facebook specific venture funds, along come Facebook, Accel and Founders fund with a $10 million pot of gold for grants to founders.  That's right, if you're a worthy founder you can get up to $250K from fbFund provided [...]

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Tandem Entrepreneurs: a fund for Web 2.0 startups

July 17, 2007

Former Tello CEO Doug Renert dropped me a note yesterday to tell me about his new gig, an investment fund called Tandem Entrepreneurs.  In Doug's own words: We built Tandem to address a startup landscape that’s transformed over the last couple of years. Traditionally, startups have required 15-20 people, two+ years and millions of dollars before [...]

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#8. Lunch was being provided

May 30, 2007

Raising funds?  Suzi Dingwall-Williams' candid list of reasons why she took meetings as a VC is a good, and potentially eye opening read.

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Congratulations Digium!

August 10, 2006

Congratulations are due to the Digium gang.  After months of speculation, Digium has landed $13.8 million in financing from Matrix Partners.  The company says the money will be used to finance growth, since they’re already profitable. Perhaps the biggest winner in this will be Matrix Partners.  Digium’s decision to take financing when already profitable is [...]

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Demmler's Resources for Entrepreneurs

July 13, 2006

Albert Lai just recently posted about Frank Demmler’s Techyvent articles on Venture Capital the other day.  These are a must read resource for any startup entrepreneur, which I’d forgotten about.  I made extensive use of this material developing our cap table models a little over a year ago. Thanks Albert!

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Rules for Start-ups

June 19, 2006

Don Dodge writes about a recent panel he participated in with Ajit Nazare of Kleiner Perkins.  Nazare outlined his 7 rules for startups: KP’s 7 rules for start-ups Instant Value to customers – solve a problem or create value with the first use Viral adoption – Pull, not push. No direct sales force required Minimum [...]

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Price Waterhouse Coopers Canadian Exposure

April 7, 2006

Howard and I have spent the last 24 hours at an event in Boston called Canadian Exposure, organized by Price Waterhouse Coopers, investor Celtic House, and Boston law firm Proctor-Goodwin. Cliff Taylor and Bruce Raganold in Ottawa’s PWC office first brought it to our attention.  I think that this is one of the best organized [...]

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