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TOMASZ TUNGUZ on How to Analyze Your Startup Like A VC in 15 Minutes Or Less

This morning YCF Scotland launched the online version of the YCF Guide to Financing Young Companies.  This looks like a really useful resource, with a selection of helpful articles and directory [...]

Startups tend to experience a succession of crises – a subject I’ve already written about in Do the Problems Ever End?  It is extremely tempting for a startup team to direct most, if [...]

PABLO FUENTES tries to help others avoid some of the mistakes he made:  Seven dirty, gritty, real startup lessons that cost me $2 million

Bill Aulet from MIT is a well-known face in Scotland, having spoken here many times, notably at the Informatics Ventures Workshops.  He also leads the Entrepreneurial Development Course (EDP) [...]

Startups can and should be a melting pot of passion, energy and commitment.  Often the team are making their first forays into the world of business. There can be a lot to learn very quickly, and [...]

Legendary programmer, write and investor Paul Graham on how to impress investors: http://paulgraham.com/convince.html  

Let me start with a gross generalisation.  British people don’t like talking about money. When I am negotiating in this country, I almost always find that the customer doesn’t want to talk about [...]