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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Gust

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. So why would raising venture capital be any different. ” What he meant was that since your scarcest resource as a manager or sales rep is your time you need to qualify better.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

… First, we need to differentiate between whether Salzburg should prioritize the funding of entrepreneurs who are pursuing breakthrough innovation as opposed to incremental innovation. How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies?

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

There’s a whole management feature, that we call the ‘Scoreboard’, we’ve got industry benchmarks, we’ve got features that are going to help you implement your plan, because you can schedule milestones and get reminders about getting those done. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager.