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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

InfoChachkie

In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. ” I recently discussed the explosion of seed accelerators and incubators with Brad Feld, who, as the Co-Founder of acclaimed startup accelerator TechStars , is uniquely qualified to opine upon the subject.

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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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

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Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”. AngelList is the productization of that.

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10 Ways Entrepreneurs Find Money To Start A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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10 Tried-And-True Strategies For Funding New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Add services that are complementary to your product.

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