Tech Wildcatters 2011 Pitch Day

Tech Wildcatters will showcase their 2011 class of startups Thursday, May 26th at the Magnolia Theatre in Dallas, Texas. Attend the event and hear what the 2011 class of startups are doing and what they need. You’ll have time to visit with the startups individually, including a happy hour at

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Big Boy Expenses for Entrepreneurs

While the stereotypical tech startup entrepreneur is 23 years old, single and has no children, the reality is that many tech startup entrepreneurs are married and/or have children. Don’t avoid “big boy” expenses just because you are bootstrapping. That is, make sure you have (or at least look into obtaining)

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Dallas Entrepreneur Outbreak

Join Alcatel-Lucent Innovation Center and Tech Wildcatters for happy hour tomorrow night and a day of innovation and entrepreneurial idea sharing Saturday with some visitors from the Silicon Valley. 6pm – 9pm Friday Night – Happy Hour and Round Table on Failure with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: Christian Wiklund – CEO

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Silicon Beach at SXSW

In the event you are in downtown Austin on Monday around lunchtime, you should check out the “Silicon Beach at SXSW” event at Parkside on 6th Street. The event is being hosted by Mingly and co-sponsored by Techzulu, Nerdy Shirts, and this blog. Join us for free drinks, demos and

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Non-Dilution Rights are Wrong

I hate non-dilution rights and if you are an entrepreneur you should, too. I’m not talking about price-based anti-dilution protection that is typical in an angel or VC round. What I’m referring to is a right given to a particular stockholder so that such stockholder’s equity in the company is

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How to Evaluate a Startup Accelerator Offer

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an accelerator! But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[25,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the accelerator offer. The following are some issues to consider and actions to take before accepting an the accelerator offer:

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2010 Startup Lawyer Roundup

A little late this year, but here’s some stats for this blog for 2010: Total Visits: 162,539 visits (94,685 in 2009) Top State Visits: 33,686 from Cali, 14,228 from New York and 12,038 from Texas. Top University Visits: 309 visits from Stanford, 163 from MIT, 150 from Harvard Top Visited

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Tech Wildcatters Applications Due January 16th

Dallas-based Tech Wildcatters is set to launch their 2nd class and will stop accepting applications January 16th. Their inaugural class of 5 companies raised over $4,000,000 in funding through two venture and two angel rounds. Tech Wildcatters is a startup accelerator that offers up to $25,000 and 12 weeks of

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Term Sheet Purgatory

There’s a lot of advice about (1) how to attract VCs, and (2) how to negotiate a venture capital term sheet. Both sets of advice tend to ignore the gap between an investor’s expression of investment interest and your startup’s receipt of the term sheet. I refer to this waiting

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