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Getting funded: Step 0, Prepare

By On July 3, 2011 · In Investor Diligence, VC, What VCs want

A series of articles about getting through the VC process from a serial entrepreneur who now sitting on the other side of the table.

This is part of a series on what it takes to get your company funded.  In this chain of posts, [...]

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How to model "cash runway" for your startup.

By On August 7, 2010 · In Business Modeling, Startup

Even before getting any funding, VCs always ask “how long will this money you are raising last?”  After funding, the question is still the same but phrased as “So, when is our cash out date?”  They are absolutely right to make this ”running out of [...]

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Startups: does an MBA help?

By On June 13, 2010 · In regular

I started three geeky software companies in Silicon Valley.  As co-founder of the first, I was working all day while getting an MBA at U.C. Berkeley at night.  My second and third were done post-MBA.  Based on my experience, having an MBA from a good university (as is [...]

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