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From Founder to CEO: What are the Critical Steps in Growing Your Business and Securing Funding?

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Thursday, March 22, 2012 -- From Founder to CEO: What are the Critical Steps in Growing Your Business and Securing Funding? What are the Critical Steps in Growing Your Business and Securing Funding? Evolving as a startup company is critical. Evolving as a Founder to CEO is just as critical. See [link] (more)

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How to Win the Funding Game

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- "How to Win the Funding Game" TCVN. While entrepreneurs spend countless hours defining their market and their customers, they tend not to develop deep expertise when it comes to raising capital.

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Financing a Start-Up

Tech Coast Venture Network

With rare exception, you will need to finance personally (or with friends and family to the point of revenue and/or significant customer pre-order or commitment). If you are pre-revenue, have pre-sales, letters of intent and/or customer commitments. At TCVN, you are never alone. Friends and Family. Virginia Lorimor, CPA.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. Referrals carry weight, but for those without a long list of angel contacts, getting access to angels via entrepreneurs they’ve already funded can be equally powerful. TCVN News' million in 2010. Mousumi Shaw, founder of Austin (Tex.) Tell a story.

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