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Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Denis Canuel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:09:29 -0000

Ben, it was great..! Thanks for coming, it's always great to have entrepreneurs encouraging the future generation :)

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:50:04 -0000

@David: Glad you enjoyed it!

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

David — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:59:52 -0000

Thanks for the presentation ben, It had a lot of interesting information

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:46 -0000

@Jiansbond: Well I'm glad you found the presentation useful, even if you're not in Montreal.

Please do keep in touch on your project, happy to help where I can.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

James Christensen — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:01:41 -0000

Gotcha Ben -- thank for the info.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Rom @ PR4 Directory — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:25:00 -0000

This blog has been proving to be an important addition to my bookmarks!

Ben, thanks you for sharing that very powerful and insightful presentation. And don't worry to much on forgeting to mention about your blog on your presentation. I am pretty sure they would remember your name and would find their way here as well ;)

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Jiansbond — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:17:38 -0000

Unfortuntely I'm not in the vicinity, I'm in the NYC region. In addition, I already have a solid concrete idea I'm currently pursuing. Planning to launch in May/June, if you are interested then I'm definitely interested in getting your feedback on it. I will contact you once the prototype is ready.

Best,

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:23:37 -0000

@Jiansbond: Great. Were you at Blitzweekend?

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Jiansbond — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:01:43 -0000

Thanks Ben !!!

I honestly discovered your blog yesterday and now I'm addicted :)

A lot of good information here, thanks for sharing.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:46:22 -0000

@Jiansbond -- The site I mentioned was Venture Hacks -- http://www.venturehacks.com -- definitely worthwhile.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Jiansbond — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:43:25 -0000

Ben mentioned a good site to read up on the VC funding process called " venture ---". Can someone please clarify which site he was referring to. I tried to reply the video a couple of times but still could not make the second word.

Thanks alot !!!

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:10:56 -0000

@James Christensen: I don't see why not...I'm sure some things are different when it comes to raising capital, for example, but the struggles and issues in starting a startup are (in my opinion) universal.

@James (from adhack): Thanks for the comment. I agree regarding the separation of work between the technical founder and a non-technical one. But, any founder that's not neck-deep in execution is going to be in trouble later on. So it's hard to separate things TOO much.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:55:39 -0000

@heri: Nice to hear the feedback was good. I stupidly forgot to tell everyone where I blog, but hopefully they can find me. And they're welcome to ask any questions...I'm not TOO hard to find!

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

James Sherrett — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:11:37 -0000

Hey Ben, this is a strong presentation and some great guidance. Particularly your point that as a founder you never stop raising money. I had never heard that before and never recognized it until you said it, but it's true.

We're building a prototype and raising money at once. Through that process I've found you just have to get used to running the two streams and do your best with them.

Now the second balancing act - running the big-picture business and detailed execution at once - presents an additional challenge.

It seems to me the most natural fit in most startups is to have the technical founder more focused on the details of execution, especially in the early days when breaking new ground is such a priority. But that just be in our situation and with our team.

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Heri — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:55 -0000

ben,

i can tell you this was a great presentation, i got to talk to many entrepreneurs/teams who told me it was very inspiring, and who wished you were there on saturday or sunday to give them some advice.

thanks again,

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

Audiomecca Webmaster — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:14:07 -0000

I think that it is a great presentation. Some of the ideas are just what young entrepreneurs need to learn about from some one like you and I bet they went away from the presentation with more optimism than when they came in!

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

James Christensen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:45:27 -0000

Do you think this is applicable across the world?