Herea4‚¬a4„s the latest from VentureBeata4‚¬a4„s Entrepreneur Corner:

How to get a VC you don&'t know to mentor you a4‚¬a4œ Ita4‚¬a4„s hard to catch the eye of a venture capitalist and even harder to convince one to mentor you. Larry Chiang, CEO of Duck9, offers tips on how to hook one.

3 steps for building an extensive talent pipeline a4‚¬a4œ People, not products, are what make a business successful. Mike Cassidy, CEO of Undertone Networks, shares his secrets on how best to discover, recruit, and keep the right people for a company.

Depressing thoughts on Groupona4‚¬a4„s model a4‚¬a4œ The startup world might be looking at Groupon as the paragon of success these days, but Flybridge Capital Partners general partner Jeff Bussgang says hea4‚¬a4„s skeptical. The early results are encouraging, but history has shown that the numbers driving new business models like this rarely have staying power.

5 things youa4‚¬a4„re doing that are killing your culture a4‚¬a4œ Lots of business owners talk a big game about wanting to create a strong company culture but fall short at doing it. Clate Mask, CEO of Infusionsoft, lists the five essential areas you need to excel in if youa4‚¬a4„re going to have a culture others envy.

The most intimate relationship youa4‚¬a4„ll ever have &8212' If your marriage goes bad, you can get out of it, but you can&'t break up with a VC or angel investor. Investor and serial entrepreneur Mark Suster talks about investigating your financial partners before signing with them a4‚¬a4œ and gives tips on how to do so.

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Chris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge

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