Here are some interesting and very valuable tips from successful entrepreneurs. Joe Kraus, founder of Excite.com and JotSpot, shares his lessons learned here. For him Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000. Mark Fletcher started ONElist with $5K and Bloglines with $50K.  He also shares with us some advice for anybody contemplating weather to rent/lease or to buy equipment and services. Via Rodrigo Sepulveda who also adds valuable hosting advice too. For those pitching VC’s hear what super serial entrepreneur Morten Lund has to say about rasing money "If a startup don’t know – someone we know (thereby arms length of trust) – the they will probably not make it to market and success….".