Startup Chatter by Donna Bogatin

Even if the venture capital market was NOT shrinking, technology entrepreneurs would STILL be hard-pressed to gain access to VC money.

Despite trendy, celebrity VC blogs which feign a new era of open accessibility, the monied men (yes, it remains a (not so) good old-BOYS club), are as stuck in their cronyism ways as ever.

While VC bloggers profit for their own portfolio accounts by soliciting mass comment “participation” at their blogs, the “community” is not rewarded with real, meaningful access to the blogging venture capitalist himself for what they really need: Equal opportunity startup funding solicitations.

StartupAlpha.com to the VC blues rescue: As founder & CEO, I hosted a pro-bono Bootstrap Workshop picnic in Bryant Park to inaugurate Internet Week NY earlier this month.

Dozens of Silicon Alley and greater New York startup founders joined me to share sunshine, lunch and strategy for two and a half hours of non-stop business model brainstorming, alliance building and venture networking and emerged better equipped for succeeding in self-financing their entrepreneurial visions: PHOTOS.

What’s more, ALL Web startups and technology entrepreneurs are invited to post FREE, easy-to-create pitch profiles for their ventures, and their ideas for future innovations, at the StartupAlpha.com Pitch Network, the Silicon Alley destination for the world’s startup community, 24/7.

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