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Founder Interview: Bill Walsh on Eliminating Small Business Failure

The Startup Magazine

His passion is to empower entrepreneurs and business owners to create massive success. To start, describe your product/service in 10 words or less: A: Our Powerteam International Success Education programs help entrepreneurs survive & thrive! A: I love helping entrepreneurs & small business owners win!

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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

I personally believe that one of the major drawbacks to venture capital in Europe is chronic under-financing and people skirt around this issue. Hence, financing rounds have been smaller (roughly a ratio of 5 to 1 when comparing US to EU). Even Dropbox and Etsy have done far larger rounds to finance their growth.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. Actually, winter did come and I have the data that shows it. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. This chart surprised me the most.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

Both Sides of the Table

Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. Every $10 million financing only puts more pressure on the founders to figure out how to hit the metrics to get to the next milestone and every company that raises $25 million puts a ton of pressure on their 10 competitors who haven’t. Entrepreneurshit.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

Entrepreneurs often believe their startup company faces legal threats from only external sources. About the Author Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions. And that’s a big mistake.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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A New Era of Fundraising for Start-Ups, Crowdfunding now Legal and Web-enabled

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Putting politics aside, the passage of the law means that small business people and social entrepreneurs will be able to use the web to raise money from large groups of small investors. Call it democratization of the fund raising market, call it free enterprise, call it access to capital, call it what you will, but it is a trend.

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