| Apply Now to Pitch at this Fall's Founder Showcase The Founder Showcase is taking applications now for a chance to make your pitch onstage at the event to be held October 21 in Mountain View, California. Any early-stage startup less than 2 years old and with less than $500,000 in funding is invited to apply. It's free to enter the pitch competition. And members of TheFunded vote to determine who they want to see onstage. The deadline for... Continue Reading »    Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. You can vote on which one you like most by clicking on our Facebook page. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting. GrillGrate First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate, a grill accessory with... Continue Reading » The Importance of Trust and Mentorship for Startups Part of me feels compelled to invoke the folktale of the frog and the scorpion. You know the story: The scorpion seeks a ride across the river, and the frog refuses, fearing the scorpion's poisonous sting. The scorpion pleads, "You can trust me." And the frog acquiesces. But as the frog bears the scorpion across the water, he feels the sting. And as the poison spreads through the frog's... Continue Reading » Silicon Valley Angels Refute Arrington's Claims of Collusion Now and then a polarizing topic will make its way through the venture capital industry and several prominent investor/bloggers will chime in with their collective opinions in quick succession. Tuesday night TechCrunch's Michael Arrington dropped a bomb on the industry, accusing Silicon Valley's top angel investors of a collusion and price-fixing conspiracy. It goes without saying that while some... Continue Reading » Report Examines Rate and Focus of Google's Acquisition Spree Acquisition by a major company has become a common exit for many startups, with the first quarter of 2010 breaking records for M&A numbers. At the beginning of 2010, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he anticipated his company would make one acquisition per month. And this week, private research firm CB Insights has released a report detailing Google's acquisition activity over time and by sector,... Continue Reading » 7,000 Words on Failure: NewsTilt Co-Founder's Essay on What Went Wrong When startups fail and are forced to shut down, often times one of the co-founders will offer a short blog post about what happened and why the company wasn't able to succeed. Not everyone does however, as reveling in your own failure isn't the most fun thing to do. In the case of the failed individual journalism platform NewsTilt, co-founder Paul Biggar penned a 7,000 word essay last week that... Continue Reading » | 
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