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How Entrepreneurs and Founders Can Avoid “Capital Tunnel Vision”   

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As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Unfortunately, without a solid grasp of how capital — in its many different forms — can influence a business, too many founders make decisions early on in their companies that have unintended consequences down the line.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Whenever I meet a team that had a consulting firm (even a great one) build their product it’s an immediate “pass&# from me.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. Your first sales people should be consultative sellers who can fuel evangelical sales. it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face. For the wrong reasons.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She now recognizes the need to have co-founders.

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( If you want mine, I’m doing a little consulting now. ) The other day, I had a difficult conversation with a founder who clearly felt like VCs were the problem in her fundraising process. So, how do you know what truth is?

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

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” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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EO members share 9 lessons learned from childhood entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Ron Lovett , EO Atlantic Canada, founder of Connolly Owens and VIDA , author of Outrageous Empowerment. Raymond Chou, EO Malaysia, founder and CEO of Infront Consulting.