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7 Guidelines For Funding New Research & Development

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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Products I Love to Use

Both Sides of the Table

I do a frequent interview show called BothSidesTV and I’ve been enjoying Meerkat for AMAs. I love the mission of DonorsChoose – teachers in less privileged areas can post projects they want funded for classrooms and individuals can donate to them. Meerkat – I love using Meerkat. I’ve written about it before.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. I Be specific. I know I do.

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Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Dr. Rubsamen of Immunity Project

Tech Zulu Event

Since the official YC announcement and launch of their crowdfunding campaign, they’ve successfully raised an initial goal of $482,000; to fund a final immunization experiments before undergoing Phase I clinical studies. Something else I learned from the Reddit AMA. “ Let’s Talk Funding. The Eventual Goal?

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

TZ’s SXSW A-team, Efren Toscano and Justin Sewell, were invited to join the momentous ride alongside other tech innovators and influencers from the Socal reach to participate with Amtrak’s first ever #AmtrakLive live-tweet and AMA thread – to discuss the highly anticipated Amtrak Residency Program.