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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

You need to find the right investors to get the ball rolling, then you can start really looking at the bigger targets like family offices or strategic investors. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors. You also talk about “family and friends” funding.

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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. a game, we are looking for a product that ends up becoming wildly popular, more popular than anyone thought it could be in the early days. Myth #2: Talk to As Many Investors As You Can.

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Strategic Investors-the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

BeyondVC

However, the deals that they are doing need to be more strategic and less opportunistic. This means that someone in a product group needs to somehow get behind the company and act as an internal sponsor. This does not mean that a company looking for funding will get a strategic partnership before a financing.

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Strategic Investors-the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

BeyondVC

However, the deals that they are doing need to be more strategic and less opportunistic. This means that someone in a product group needs to somehow get behind the company and act as an internal sponsor. This does not mean that a company looking for funding will get a strategic partnership before a financing.

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Six Tips For Startups Outside Of Traditional VC Hubs

YoungUpstarts

While it is certainly true that the lion’s share of venture capital activity takes place in a handful of major locations, almost every large city has a local investor community. Strategic investors not only provide capital, but also provide early customer opportunities and other resources to develop your product.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.