Everything a Startup Needs to Know About Raising Funds

by Andrew Warner| Daniel Gould Interview | blog.Mixergy.com

Download (Andrew's) hour interview with Daniel Gould by right-clicking here.

Does size matter?

Industry Interactive Inc.

"maybe the size of a company is inversely related to it’s effectiveness. When a company gets too big, it gets bogged down. Is there a solution to the problem, or are all companies just destined to become big, useless hulks?

Web Analytics Failing to Drive Business Decision-Making

Marketing Charts

"Companies are typically failing to adopt a coherent strategy that ties in web analytics data with business objectives - just 18% of surveyed firms do so - according to the Online Measurement and Strategy Report from E-consultancy and Lynchpin."

5 Quick Tips on Pitching Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists

by Ben Yoskovitz | Instigator Blog

"It’s a fact of life when you run a venture-backed startup. It’s one of those things that no one ever tells you about raising money — once you start, you never stop."

How Liquidation Preferences Work

Altgate - A Blog On Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between

"Liquidation preferences are a key term in the definition of preferred stock (it's generally acknowledged to be the second most important economic term). Earlier, I wrote about this and other terms in a post on negotiating a term sheet, but here I want to give some specific examples to illustrate why this is such an important term."

These Are the Best of Times!

Mark Evans - A Canadian Take on the Web

Personally, the revelation of never having it (the Web) so good hit me last week while looking at two computer screens; one featuring multiple Twitter windows and an IM client, while the other had Firefox chock-a-block with 20 tabs opens, iTunes going, a YouTube video waiting to watched, and an in-box with a bunch of beta invites and last-minute details for the upcoming mesh conference. As someone I work with often says “Good Times!”

How to make the leap from corporate hack to entrepreneur

Melissa Chang | The Industry Standard

"what happens after the I-have-to-get-out moment, when the practicalities set in? How does anyone actually leave the corporate world for a start-up?

For me, there were five major things that I had to deal with before I could make the leap. Other people have a different list. But discovering your list of objections and coming up with solutions (or a compromise that you can live with) is how you will ultimately be able to leave the corporate environment to start your company."

99% Genetic? Individual Differences in Executive Function Are Almost Perfectly Heritable

by Chris Chatham | Developing Intelligence

"Your ability to control thought and behavior relative to your peers - a set of capacities known as "executive functions" - is almost entirely genetic in origin, according to a newly in-press paper from Friedman et al."

Chris Chatham is a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

After the Techcrunch Bump

by Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital | Redeye VC

"I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by Techcrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the "Techcrunch Bump", and then (3) "grow virally". While a positive Techcrunch review has the potential to send thousands of consumers your way, it does not represent a marketing plan."