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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Founders can make in-person connections, however, with Qualcomm Ventures at various demo events, conferences and trade shows. The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding. “First meetings with seed investors just aren’t that formal. “I’m always open.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Build something then demo it to people. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good. It all depends on where you’re at. Thanks alot!

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

We had to raise some seed capital. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt. Unfortunately, we did not have any resources to do take two so I had to shut down the company, move to Silicon Valley full-time. So, people default.