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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Almost certainly the startup would have raised some capital.

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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Entrepreneurs Due Diligence on Investors Is Smart

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back, I published an article on “ Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. The investment community in any geographic area is not that large, and most investors have relationships or knowledge of most of the others.