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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Know your partner well before you get married. Marty Zwilling

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Know your partner well before you get married. Marty Zwilling.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Know your partner well before you get married. Marty Zwilling.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US. I spoke with the Seasteading Institute , who are looking into this idea. - Launching a seastead accelerator offshore from New York.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

This is also where your own priorities may influence who you are looking to partner with. Research the founder, MD or CEO of the company. Do they have a presence in their local tech industry? Finally, review the apps they have built. Can the company get you to a point where you have the collateral to attract more investment?

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. In exchange for federal science funding, universities became partners in weapons systems research and development. This approach was successful when U.S. industry was aligned with manufacturing in the U.S., In lieu of the U.S.