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OnStartups  less than a day ago:

The Why and How Of Updating Your Angel Investors -

There’s a massive amount available on the interwebs on how to improve the odds for success in new ventures.
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SKMurphy  6 days ago:

Learning the Right Lessons From Failure -

John Finneran recently wrote a postmortem on a startup that aspired to be “the 37 Signals of non-profit software entitled “Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup.
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OnStartups  6 days ago:

Startup PR Tip: To Get Press, Don't Pitch Your Product -

I get pitches every day from entrepreneurs, PR agencies and book authors who hope to get an article about them written on my blog, OnStartups (300,000 readers) — or on HubSpot's marketing blog(over 1.
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SKMurphy  May 15 13 :

Due Diligence Checklist For Evaluating A Service Business for Acquisition -

We did some work recently advising a client on  a possible acquisition a small service business and came up with a checklist of items to review: key employees – plan for retention and role in merged entity financials check register – all checks in last two years bank statements income sheet and balance statement contracts [.
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SKMurphy  May 14 13 :

Podcast with Pete Tormey on Forming a Team, Dividing Equity, and Gaining Early Traction -

Pete Tormey and I decided to do a podcast to address a number of team formation, business formation, and early revenue issues that we have seen in our own startups, in our practices, or hear questions about at the various Bootstrapper Breakfasts® meetings we take part in.
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SKMurphy  May 13 13 :

They Screwed Up, They Followed Our Specification -

A story from when I was working at Cisco about how a lack of trust slowed down the solution to a problem.
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OnStartups  May 08 13 :

The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup -

One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is to publicly share the pitchdeck you’ve used to raise money.
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SKMurphy  May 03 13 :

Get Out of Your Batcave: Customer Development for Lean Startups -

Join us on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, where we will be giving a Lean Startup class at Education @ PARISOMA in San Francisco, CA.
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SKMurphy  May 02 13 :

Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action -

A talk I enjoyed by Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) on “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Some great insights from Apple, Dr.
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SKMurphy  May 01 13 :

How To Thrive After An Acquisition -

Q: I was CTO and co-founder of a small technology startup that was recently acquired by a much larger firm.
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SKMurphy  Apr 30 13 :

Quotes For Entrepreneurs–April 2013 -

You can follow @skmurphy to get these hot off the mojo wire or wait until they are collected in a blog post at the end of each month.
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OnStartups  Apr 29 13 :

5 Startup Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Culture -

Remember your first business loan? Or, if you're like many entrepreneurs, you may have initially bootstrapped your startup by buying some stuff on your credit card.
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SKMurphy  Apr 29 13 :

Hiring A Startup’s First Sales Person -

Gabriel Weinberg is a serial entrepreneur (latest startup: DuckDuckGo), an insightful blogger, and quality contributor to Hacker News.
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SKMurphy  Apr 27 13 :

Vision Is Critical But Avoid The “Field of Dreams” -

The Field of Dreams model or “build it and they will come” is a variation on the mousetrap trap “build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Venture Hacks  Apr 23 13 :

How much traction do I need to raise money? -

How much traction do you need to raise $1M? AngelList’s Ash Fontana has the answer on TechCrunch: Read the post for details and also see these comments by me, Michael Wolfe, and Shallaba.
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OnStartups  Apr 22 13 :

12 Terrible (But Hilarious) Places To Work [slides] -

After the week we've had in Boston this week, I found it hard to focus on any overly heavy work this weekend.
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SKMurphy  Apr 22 13 :

16 Quotes on Customer Development From Asif Mandozai -

I have been following Asif Khan Mandozai (@asifmandozai) on twitter for several months now and thought I would curate a set of is best quotes on customer development for posterity.
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OnStartups  Apr 18 13 :

3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder -

After spending a significant portion of the last couple of years talking and collaborating with countless entrepreneurs (through FounderDating) a few clear themes have emerged around partnering with cofounders.
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OnStartups  Apr 11 13 :

Does HubSpot Walk The Talk On Its Culture Code? -

A couple of weeks ago, HubSpot shared our culture code deck (http://CultureCode.
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OnStartups  Apr 09 13 :

Clear Eyes, Full Heart: Beating The Series A Crunch -

The following is a guest post by Alan Wells, co-founder & product designer at Glyder.
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