Maybe Your Startup Is a Moonlighting Kinda Thing?

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Kohort
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I just signed up for yet another web thingy and I don’t even know what it is! (I always do this, because I waited till August of 2007 to sign up for Twitter, and I felt stupid.) It’s Kohort, which “will be related to social media,” and which just got $3 million in seed money. Started by some hot guy who went to Duke! It sounds… great! Whatever it is. I guess? With all this hubbub going on — like, while the backers of Color are gunning to be ready to replace Facebook, with the local social network, as opposed to the “friends” network — it’s nice to opt out of the noise and drama and take a look at non-VC-backed startups. They’re not very tricky! In fact, they’re the opposite of tricky, as you generally don’t have someone’s fingers in your pudding, you don’t have any PowerPoint and you don’t have to pay a fortune for lawyers. Also it lowers the schadenfreude! So here’s your basic primer on funding a startup without VC money. (You can also bootstrap your startup by not paying the IRS for a couple years! Or so we hear. P.S. GO MAIL YOUR TAXES.)