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I recently came across a post by Eric Paley of Founders Collective. If you are not familiar with the Bostonian seed fund / angel group...
How We Lost $700K Investment by Failing to Follow Our Own Advice
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Lean Startup – The Leanest Way to Get Out There
Lean startup was started by Eric Ries and has been around for a few years now. Still, it's one of these things where it's...
Managing 20 Investors and Still Having Time to Run the Company
SOOMLA's most recent seed round was one of the biggest angel rounds in Israel in terms of number of investors. While the Silicon Valley...
5 Mega Acquisitions of Open Source Companies
Being an open source company, one of the challenges we face is explaining people a few basic concepts about open source. "No it's not...
Advisory Board – What it Is and Do You Need One?
A few months ago I had to get rid of a closet we had in the apartment and didn't fit my wife's ideas about...
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I started by setting meetings with pretty much anyone I could. My focus was successful entrepreneurs who raised...
Investors Invest Locally – Can the Myth be Broken – Part 2
Tackling the obstacles one by one
To give this a fair chance, I knew I'll have to tackle as many of these as possible. A...
Investors Invest Locally – Can the Myth be Broken – Part 1
Going for our seed round
About half a year ago I started raising our official seed round. An ambitious $1M round to help us expand...
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