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Great content this week on early stage funding and CTOs, enjoy.

• Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

on Web Startup Help

• Startups: Provide a Killer Executive Summary

on Startup Professionals

• Yo, CEO! When you fund-raise, your brain must turn bi-polar

on Inma Martinez

• Investment ready?

on Startups.co.uk

• Work with the number 3 to prepare for more success
• When, How Much, Who, Valuation (1 of 5)

on Nesheim Online

• Raising Angel Money

on Both Sides of the Table

• Do entrepreneurs need elevator pitches?

on Startable

• Startup CTO mistakes I’d rather not repeat…

on Carl Schmidt

• 37 Pithy Insights From Street-Smart Entrepreneurs

on OnStartups

Last week I attended the Europas award ceremony in London. The event was hosted by Mike Butcher of TechCrunch Europe, and I must say was really interesting.
I still haven’t had time to write my proper thoughts on it, but I will soon. In the meanwhile I’ll post what others think of the european startup scene after the event.

• Techcrunch Europas Awards: And the winner is..

on Nick Point

• The European startup scene is building stronger bonds

on Laurent Pierssens

• Highlights of TechCrunch’s Europas

on Computer Weekly

• The Europas: Winners, Losers & Wine

on Bitch Buzz

• TechCrunch Europas: Awards for everybody and a kicker for the next 12 months

on Inma Martinez

• TechCrunch hails European tech stars

on Smarta

• The Europas: The Winners Champagne

on Fhoke

• Techcrunch europas rawked!

on Random Mel

• TechCrunch Europas: Optimisim & Creative Destruction Alive and Well

on Dimen Designs

• and the official winners post from TechCrunch Europe.

This is a pretty long list of great articles since last week I didn’t post the usual weekend reading. There is some really great content here.
Not in a particular order.

• Unveiling the New Influencers

on PR 2.0

• What CEO’s wish they knew

on Dean Holmes

• Whatever it is, begin it now. An enter the cave of pain!

on Tom Keller

• When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free

on Blog Maverick

• It’s a great time to get seed round money

on Nesheim Online

• #10 Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups

on Less Everything

• Social Entrepreneurship Revisited

on Stanford Social Innovation Review

• Thinking of selling your company in the future? Go Strategic. It pays a lot Better

on Active Garage

• Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley

on The NY Times

• Startups: Eight Common Arrogance Traps
• All Great Ideas Don’t Make Great Startups
• The Entrepreneurial Revolution is Here

on Startup Professional

• The Five Most Promising Female Startups

on Tiburon TV

• The Generation M Manifesto

on Harvard Business

• 10 Things Most MBA Schools Won’t Teach You About Startups

on OnStartups

• Startup Fundraising 101

on Entrepreneur Corner

• Startup Hotbed Inferiority Complex

on A VC

• Why I will never be a founder

on Startup CFO

• Spotify Looks For A New Tune

on Forbes

• The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

on The Great Startup Game

• UK Entrepreneurs: Get Your Funding While You Still Can

on Tech Crunch

Hope you have more time than me to do your weekend reading Here are my suggestions.

• The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity

on Wired

• Entrepreneurship 101: Financing the launch of your company

on Local Tech Wire

• Watch 33 Sessions from 140conf

on the Jeff Pulver Blog

• How to Run a Startup Board Meeting

on Payne.org

• Why Business Plans Don’t Deliver

on MITSloan Review

• The Five Most Promising Nordic Startups

on Tiburon Tv

Choosing the best links is getting harder, so many nice articles out there.. Here you go!

• Do Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Who Use Twitter Invest More in Startups?

on Chubby Brain

• How to fund your startup from customers

on Jeff Haynie’s Introspection

• Coping with being a CEO – it can be lonely at the top

on SmallBiz Pod

• Water rises at European cleantech events, VCs take note

on Venture Beat

• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

on Wired

• Why Continuous Deployment?

on Lessons Learned

• It’s Time for Chief Web Communications Officers

on Candi on Content

• Why you should make it easy for users to quit your product
• Why metrics-driven startups overlook brand value

on Andrew Chang

• The Five Most Promising French Startups

on Tiburon Tv

• Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions

on A smart Bear

Another bunch of great startup and venture capital articles found around the web..

• Working with VCs part 1 : its not summer camp (nor should it be)

on Leaving The Flock

• The Capital Raising Ladder

on Read Write Start

• 14 startup pitfalls to avoid
• Shocker: Study shows VCs plan to invest in fewer companies

on Venture Beat

• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

on Wired

• The Five Most promising Dutch Startups

on Tiburon TV

• There is only one currency: it’s called value

on Khuram

• Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial ‘Evangelist’ Guy Kawasaki

on Knowledge@Wharton

• The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator’s Paul Graham

on Inc.

Bonus: List of Entrepreneurs on Twitter

Bonus video: The real time investor