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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Dauntless Takes Flight with New Business Model for Starting Biotechs

Xconomy

We outsource everything. Dauntless came to light after the MoneyTree Report on second-quarter venture capital activity turned up a couple of funding deals for “Dauntless 1,” the first biotech created by the umbrella company. We are taking capital as needed, not sooner.”. We don’t have our own laboratory.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Build Startups Without Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The reality is that over 80 percent of new businesses will never attract venture capital or Angel funding, according to experts , and there are many good reasons for skipping that painful and distracting process. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/31/2016. Outside funding is not a startup entitlement.

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7 Startup Strategies To Gain From Your Limitations

Startup Professionals Musings

They look for creative solutions to problems that are inhibiting progress, rather than the conventional solution of outsourcing or hiring people. Startups funded by large venture-capital investments rarely think about productivity. Are you having fun yet in your new venture, despite the limitations?

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