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isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=58573</guid> <description><![CDATA[Y Combinator, a leading seed investment incubator, recently announced that it would be accepting startup applications for this years fund from startup founders WITHOUT an idea. Here&#8217;s how the incubator describes itself on its website: Y Combinator does seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/03/y-combinator-investors-should-back-the-jockey-not-the-horse/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The hows and the whats &#8212; 5 tough questions VCs ask</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2012/03/the-hows-and-the-whats-5-tough-questions-vcs-ask/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/03/the-hows-and-the-whats-5-tough-questions-vcs-ask/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicholas Haralambous</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Angle Investors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Super Angels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US]]></category> <category><![CDATA[VCs]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=57225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over the past six months I have spoken with a wide variety of people who have shown, in varying degrees, interest in investing in my company. Many of these VCs have specific ways that they conduct a call, interview or meeting. Many of them have lead me down long and wasteful due diligence processes, many [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/03/the-hows-and-the-whats-5-tough-questions-vcs-ask/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Why you should network when raising funds for your tech venture</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/why-you-should-network-when-raising-funds-for-your-tech-venture/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/why-you-should-network-when-raising-funds-for-your-tech-venture/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:00:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alexandra Fraser</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=54979</guid> <description><![CDATA[You may believe tech creates jobs, you may believe it destroys jobs. Whatever the case, we know that in the tech world we are seeing entrepreneurial activity like never before. It’s not surprising that there is so much written about venture capital and startups in the tech world, and that there are so many incubators [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/angelhub-investors-come-together-to-foster-startup-growth/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How do VCs get their money? They pitch too</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/how-do-vcs-get-their-money-they-pitch-too/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/how-do-vcs-get-their-money-they-pitch-too/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:30:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Scott Sage</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=54932</guid> <description><![CDATA[Every two or three years, VC&#8217;s gear up to raise money for their next fund. They create a pitch deck, come up with a list of investors actively investing in venture capital funds, make sure they get introductions to them from trusted sources &#8212; or go direct if they already have the relationship, and pitch [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/how-do-vcs-get-their-money-they-pitch-too/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>VC funding is not a blank cheque with no strings attached</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/vc-funding-is-not-a-blank-cheque-with-no-strings-attached/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/vc-funding-is-not-a-blank-cheque-with-no-strings-attached/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:45:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alexandra Fraser</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category> <category><![CDATA[investor]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=46540</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently watched a documentary on Steve Jobs called &#8220;One Last Thing&#8220;. It was well done, mixing a fair bit of the good, the bad, and the ugly about the life of the man. There was also a lot of praise for the &#8220;marketing genius&#8221; of Steve Jobs. Then it struck me: If Steve Jobs [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2011/11/steve-jobs-would-never-succeed-in-todays-silicon-valley/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pitching perfection to investors: A 10-step guide</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/pitching-perfection-to-investors-a-10-step-guide/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/pitching-perfection-to-investors-a-10-step-guide/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alexandra Fraser</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[angel investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[elevator pitch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[venture capital fund]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=44596</guid> <description><![CDATA[Enthusiastic entrepreneurs looking to raise funding must realise that a great business case alone is definitely not enough to guarantee a favorable outcome. Not preparing adequately for a presentation to an angel investor or a venture capital fund is a sure-fire way of guaranteeing failure. The power of a strong, well polished pitch to funders [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/pitching-perfection-to-investors-a-10-step-guide/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What happens after Venture Capital funding is secured?</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/what-happens-after-venture-capital-funding-is-secured/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/what-happens-after-venture-capital-funding-is-secured/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Keet Van Zyl</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=43153</guid> <description><![CDATA[Many Venture Capital (VC) articles, blogs and the like focus on how to secure VC. But not many disclose that the real work starts post-investment. While the investment decision is critical to portfolio performance, VCs spend more than 60% of their time on post-investment activities in order to grow investments for lucrative exits. These activities [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2011/10/what-happens-after-venture-capital-funding-is-secured/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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