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The Pmarca Guide to Startups

• November 26, 2007
• Author: Timo Paloheimo
• Category: Financing, First steps, Managing a Startup, Startups, Theory

Marc Andreessen’s The Pmarca Guide to Startups is a very good guide addressing the issues a high-tech startup founder will be facing.

• Part 1: Why not to do a startup
• part 2: When the VCs say “no”
• part 3: “But I don’t know any VCs!”
• part 4: The only thing that matters
• part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
• part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
• part 7: Why a startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much
• part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
• part 9: How to hire a professional CEO

The post are quite long (except the last one), but comprehensive. Definitely a must for any wannabe-founder like me.

Tags: First steps, Funding, guide, management, Marc Andreessen, recruiting, Startups, tips

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Web Startups: From Idea to Launch

• October 30, 2007
• Author: Timo Paloheimo
• Category: Financing, First steps

What do you do after you’ve had your mind-blowingly-simple-but-extraordinarily-unique idea for a web startup? I really hadn’t put too much thought into it, before I read Matt Rogers’ articles on bootstrapping and the functional specification. Good advice for anyone from a person who’s just gone through the process.

Tags: bootstrapping, documentations, Financing, First steps, specification, startup, Web

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