Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirtieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Dave McClure, an angel investor and the founder of 500 Startups, which is a seed fund and startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California. Irina: Hi Dave, Let’s start briefly with

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Today’s Entrepreneurship Webinar

Today’s webinar was very well attended (probably the largest Dimdim webinar they’ve ever had, according to Steve Chazin, CMO) – well over 130 people from 220+ registered. For those of you who missed the webinar, here is the recording:

Top 20 Serial Entrepreneur Interviews

In the recap mode, here’s a list of the top 20 serial entrepreneurs I have spoken with: * Philippe Courtot – a very young 63-year old CEO of Qualys.

Serial Entrepreneurs

I want to turn the spotlight on serial entrepreneurs, and open a discussion on what drives them, and if you want to become a serial entrepreneur, what can you learn from the lives, careers and choices of other successful serial entrepreneurs.

Catching Up on Readings: Hydro Alchemy

Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:

Microsoft’s Shopping List

Let Yahoo deal with its mess, Microsoft should go cold turkey on them for a year now, and let Jerry Yang get fired for failing to create shareholder value. A far more interesting question looms on the Microsoft side. What is Microsoft’s Internet strategy going forward?

Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 10)

SM: Go back to 2004 and trace to 2008 – what were the milestones in terms of traction and bringing the solution to market? GG: When we made the LinkedIn partnership in April 2005 analysts covered that as the first time job searching and social networking were blended. In the fall of 2005, in a

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 9)

SM: Your goal with SimplyHired is to skip the referral network to the extent it is possible, and to replace it with a combination of services available on the web which SimplyHired brings together for the candidate? GG: Exactly. Over time a person’s social and professional affiliations will come online. People will use those connections

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