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Can You Build a Business with $100 or Less? Yes … and Here’s How

StartupNation

Pick a business that doesn’t suck up cash Skip expensive solutions that look like a financial Everest and require investment with a capital “I” (and five or more zeros). They offer the highest return on investment (ROI). People are the most significant investment, whereas spending money on trends can be an express lane to bankruptcy.

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Transforming Real Estate: Dan Noma Jr.’s Mission to Enhance the Investor Experience for All

Jason Malki

the designated broker/owner of Venture REI , an award-winning, Arizona-based real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in the purchase, sale, rental, and marketing of select residential developments and commercial investment properties. He began personally investing in real estate at the age of 18.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1. Community Leaders + Organizers. It takes both to build a community. The ingredients are all here.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. Josh Kopelman will be working closely on this investment as well. Joining our investment in the $900k round were General Catalyst, Betaworks, Jason Calacanis, and Chris Sacca.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

Both Sides of the Table

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. You can start in a lightweight, community friendly way like on Tumblr or Posterous without much effort. I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. Let me explain. So it goes with blogging.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,