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5 Recommendations Before Funding An Appealing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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5 Due Diligence Tips Before You Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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How To Avoid Investment Scams In The Startup World

Startup Professionals Musings

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

Both Sides of the Table

All of this has become a lot more relevant lately given social networking. He has founded a new social networking site called AnyBeat to take on this issue. And, harrumph, do I really want to go to another fucking social network. You’re old enough to have established your reputation and you know right from wrong.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Investment Scams For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Any mention of “offshore.” Another method?

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How to Protect Yourself From Bernie Madoff

Startup Professionals Musings

Every reputable investment firms has to file regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Any mention of “offshore”. Sounds too good to be true.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

Allow untrusted network participants to trade If you started a business 200 years ago you could mostly only trade in your local economy and you relied about “traders” who could transport your products great distances to those who might like to buy them in foreign lands. That would be like Turkey’s voting to have Thanksgiving dinner.