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9 Business Model Components For New Business Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

As a former angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Many businesses these days serve both paying and non-paying customers, such as Google and Facebook, who count on millions of non-paying users to attract advertisers, who really pay the bill. Value propositions.

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9 Elements Of Every New Venture That Investors Expect

Startup Professionals Musings

As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Many businesses these days serve both paying and non-paying customers, such as Google and Facebook, who count on millions of non-paying users to attract advertisers, who really pay the bill. Value propositions.

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The Business Model Canvas Can Get Your Startup Funded

Startup Professionals Musings

As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Many businesses these days serve both paying and non-paying customers, such as Google and Facebook, who count on millions of non-paying users to attract advertisers, who really pay the bill. Value propositions.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

socalTECH

We lit our own KeyInfo fiber ring, which provides advanced connectivity services to Ventura and Los Angeles counties. As a funny side note, when I did a Google search to fact check the amount, one of suggested searches was 67 billion Dollars in Rupees. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the last year?

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Want to Get Rich? Listen to Your Customers Like These Founders……

Steve Reich

Why does Google dominate search? Originally funded by the Pasadena Angels , the Company is now backed by “A” list VCs, and growing phenomenally, with tens of thousands of customers. This is not an article about the high moral purpose and the nobility of listening to your customers. Why do so many of us have iPhones?

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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7 Work Ethic Elements Will Get You Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor in startups, I often find myself looking harder at the quality of the team and the leadership, than at the details of the product and business model. I have found that the most successful entrepreneurs and business executives have an impressive work ethic, and they surround themselves with a team of comparable commitment.

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