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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model.

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Interview: Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks

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What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. One mistake I made early on is I thought, ‘capital is fungible, look at the foreign exchange markets.’

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, Clean Green Guy

socalTECH

We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. Nikhil Jain: The concept behind Artilient Labs is it's a way to take a business, from the ground up, with very low capitalization.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

socalTECH

Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. We thought--there has got to be another way.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. And so is venture capital. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Commitment.

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Startup Fundraising 101: Getting Ready To Raise A Round

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There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. These are usually the first sources entrepreneurs tap. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Vendor funding. Venture debt. Target VCs.

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