From Rand Fishkin’s post about his long, expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful journey trying to raise VC money for his company SEOmoz (emphasis is mine):
I tell this story about our VC experience to a lot of people – it seems to be a subject that attracts great curiosity and I, of course, love to share. Most [...]
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This is Why I’ll Probably Never Pursue VC Funding
snailmailr is Brilliant!
I recently discovered snailmailr, a nifty website that lets you send real mail (i.e. “snail mail”) online for only 99 cents per letter, postage included. As you can see from the picture, the interface is dead simple. You can write your letter with their online editor or you can attach a Word Document, PDF, Powerpoint [...]
Put a Site Up This Weekend, Generate Revenue Next Week
After I posted about my Broncos tickets arriving, reader Jakob quickly notified me to cover up the bar codes on the two tickets I showed in the image. I emailed him to thank him and we got into a pretty interesting conversation about a business he just started. The business is a real estate photo [...]
The Bootstrapped Office
My favorite Lifehacker posts are their “featured workspaces.” If you haven’t seen it, people submit their unique work areas and they pick the best of the best to display on the blog. The ones they pick are usually some combination of simplicity, elegance, creativity, and affordability. If you have a few minutes, [...]
Funding Your First Business
Hypothetically, let’s go back in time and say I’m about to graduate from college. I know that in my heart I want to be an entrepreneur, but I’m concerned about how to fund a new company and have enough money to live. What do I do?
It’s a common position for potential business owners to be [...]
