8 Podcasts for Startups, plus bonuses
Finding your motivation as a new startup founder, evangelist, investor, rockstar… was easy. Maintaining it may or may not be easy. But, maintaining your awareness of your ecosystem is crucial. Why? Because facts, rumors, and trends will assist you in knowing how you and your project’s trajectory match up to your intended real world situations. […]
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Local web startup-friendly incubators – DC, Maryland, Virginia
This post is a challenge of sorts… in trying to find local places that would be web-startup friendly, there wasn’t a handy list. As opposed to biotech, general incubators, etc., the list is an attempt to show physical locations that people can work. Not all of these places below may have rentable facilities, and it […]
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Eventbrite’s Kevin Hartz – Vator TV Interview
We’ve used Eventbrite for ticketing for events, and have watched over the years as it has become a more popular platform. Below is a video from Vator TV in which Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz is interviewed, including discussing Xoom which he also founded. One of his quotes is to not spend too much time looking […]
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Motivational Mondays #2 – Bias Towards Action
Being motivated and taking action on your motivation are often two different areas. Motivation is a feeling you can have. Action is actual activity that brings results (positive & negative). Many are motivated, many dream, and relatively few take action. Anyone can have a lull in the action, and sometimes it just takes listening to […]
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DC Startup Showcase List 2009
This list is an attempt to round up in one place a snapshot of the DC and metropolitan Maryland & Northern Virginia startup presentations & demos that took place in 2009. If you are a tech startup (or thinking of starting): you can plug in now into the Mid-Atlantic region’s growing community, including events every […]
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Business Success Videos – Motivational Mondays
Motivational Mondays kicks off with some videos from TED, a conference dedicated to “ideas worth spreading”, and with a video from down under. Success is a continuous journey – Richard St. John – talks at a TED event about success in terms of learning and re-building… an initial “success” is not the end-game. The video […]
Read MoreFive Slide Decks For Startups
Here are several slide deck presentations aimed at startups of technology companies. There are too many to put into one post, and future groups will be added & linked somewhere in this post. 1. The slide deck below is “Designing For Social Traction” and starts off with issues related to users of a (new) website, […]
Read MoreOnline Funding Resources: 10 Entrepreneur and Investor Communities & Portals
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- angels
- business plan
- capital
- coaching
- community
- crowd-source
- DC
- dire straits
- early-stage
- england
- entrepreneur
- financing
- investor
- london
- mid-atlantic
- money for nothing
- music
- online funding
- online term sheet
- prosper
- raise capital
- startup funding
- sting
- term sheets
- VC
- venture capital
- venture capitalist
- Videos
As a follow-up to last week’s post DC Investors Venture Capital (VC) List, here are some resources to reach out beyond your local geographic area, wherever you are. Some of these sites attempt to use the best aspects of online social communities to enable entrepreneurs to help each other, in areas of financing their ventures, […]
Read MoreTerm Sheets 101
Term Sheets An additional piece of lingo that may be involved in financing your venture is term sheet, which is a document containing the basic terms and conditions of a yet-to-ironed-out agreement. You may want to understand some of the nuances of these documents, including what an investor may think is ideal. There is at […]
Read MorePassion – Carrot & Stick
The source of a startup venture is usually one person’s strong passion. Whether the passion is clear and known, or murky and a hidden driving force, it aids in the process. Your passion can provide energy, direction, discipline, differentiation, and infuses itself into numerous areas. Where does passion come from? It depends on what type […]
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