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Ben Saren - who has written 10 posts on The Founder's Quandary.

Ben Saren is Co-Founder and CEO of CitySquares.com, the premier hyper-local search site for small businesses nationwide. Ben is a regular within the Boston high-tech and entrepreneurial scene. He actively blogs at Your Suspect, where he writes about his experiences and perspectives as an entrepreneur.

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Founder Institute Comes to Boston

Posted on 12 May 2010

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In early 2007 a new website was founded by someone only known as Ted. The website was simply called The Funded. Simply put, The Funded allows entrepreneurs to rate and review venture capital firms and angel investor groups. While the site, and its founder, has been highly criticized, The Funded took off. For [...]

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Inc Magazine: House Rules

Posted on 08 December 2009

Read a great article in Inc. magazine that hit home for me, as it will for lots of entrepreneurs and company founders who are in relationships or married. The article can be found here, but I’ve also included it below.

New Year’s resolutions have always been good for Stonyfield Yogurt. Our sales invariably spike in January [...]

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Fred Wilson on Valuation and Option Pools

Posted on 06 November 2009

Fred Wilson is one of the most visible and transparent VCs out there, and you might even say that he broke the mold on transparency in venture capital. He also happens to be a very sharp guy, who is not afraid to speak his mind. When Fred speaks I find myself nodding my head constantly, [...]

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The Future of Funding

Posted on 27 October 2009

If you are an entrepreneur and don’t know about TheFunded, check it out. Get in there, look around, get involved, and subscribe to TheFunded’s newsletter. Here’s the latest from Adeo and TheFunded who was kind enough to let me post this up here on TFQ.
Unfortunately given that TheFunded is based on the west coast, most [...]

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Rekindling TFQ

Posted on 26 October 2009

I launched this site nearly a year ago and unfortunately while many fellow entrepreneurs and founders found the idea and concept to be interesting and initially committed to contributing to it and participating in one way or another, the website was launched a bit in vain. I’d very much like to see it come alive. [...]

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Help Define The Founder’s Quandary

Posted on 31 March 2009

We received a tweet today from someone who was inquiring as to why founders must be running funded companies. It’s a great question, a very valid one.
The very essence of the quandary, as it’s being used here at TFQ is the very dilemma of being a founder running a funded company – that’s sort of [...]

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E*TRADE Baby Outtakes

Posted on 27 March 2009

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted on 27 March 2009

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Welcome to The Founder’s Quandary

Posted on 27 March 2009

Welcome to The Founder’s Quandary, a community for company founders!
This community is the result of a few company founders realizing that there isn’t a good place for founders to get together and talk about our experiences and perspectives as company founders.  As any company founder can relate, these perspectives and experiences are intense. They include [...]

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Where to find The Founders

Posted on 27 March 2009

You can find The Founder, of The Founder’s Quandary, here on our Wordpress blog, as well as on twitter and on ning.
Should we create a facebook page, and others? Linkedin? You tell us…

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