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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. While I recognize that there continues to be a shortage of venture capital for new entrepreneurs, compared to the demand, don’t succumb to the temptation to take funds from investors that you are not totally comfortable with.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. While I recognize that there continues to be a shortage of venture capital for new entrepreneurs, compared to the demand, don’t succumb to the temptation to take funds from investors that you are not totally comfortable with.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. While I recognize that there continues to be a shortage of venture capital for new entrepreneurs, compared to the demand, don’t succumb to the temptation to take funds from investors that you are not totally comfortable with.

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Entrepreneurs Can Revitalize The Image Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

I think that the number of players in this devloping class of what I’d call “Micro VCs” will continue to increase over the coming years: the model fits into an opportunity on the capital supply side, as well as more importantly becomes the right product for many entrepreneurs on the demand side. Structural.