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5 Recommendations Before Funding An Appealing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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5 Due Diligence Tips Before You Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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How To Avoid Investment Scams In The Startup World

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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Don’t Be Fooled by Investment Scams For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products. In the last year, we’ve seen Social Networks enable new forms of peaceful revolution.

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How to Protect Yourself From Bernie Madoff

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Any mention of “offshore”. Another method?

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Funding is still “friends and family” We never did an institutional round of financing. Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. The only interference we see is from Vodafone in some countries, and in Iran. The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China.

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