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Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make – Hire Right

Here's a good article from Neil Patel (co-founder of KISSMetrics). He interviewed a few successful entrepreneurs that had built businesses worth at least $50 million to learn what some of their biggest mistakes were. By far, the reply that kept coming up is hiring the wrong people. It seems that just about everything else falls …

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Seeking Venture Funding? Have a Clear Understanding of your Financials

Recently, I've discovered the blog of Robert Ochtel. He's an author and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experience. He's also raised over $50 million for his businesses, and started VentureBlue, a national Angel network. And, he's just up the road in Carlsbad, CA. Robert wrote a post explaining why entrepreneurs should be comforatble …

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TakeLessons featured in San Diego Union Tribune Sunday Edition

The Union Tribune ran a story on young web start-ups in San Diego and what they are doing to make the most out of the recession. TakeLessons was a featured company. "The company started working out of Cox's house. It now has offices, but not the $700 Aeron chairs that typified the excesses of the …

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Need a Venture Capital Term Sheet? Here’s a FREE One.

Image via CrunchBase For all my fellow entrepreneurs: Here is a FREE term sheet generator for equity invesments. This tool will generate a venture financing term sheet based on your responses to an online questionnaire. Sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of the the premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide. …

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