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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Product pre-order model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Product pre-order model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Product pre-order model. A much-touted success was the Pebble Watch on Kickstarter , with orders exceeding $10 million.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Back in the day, when you went to Amazon, you ended up at Amazon Germany, where everything was in German, and prices were in German Marks. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. I saw Amazon.com, but knew that Amazon.com had no presence in Finland. You had a hard time buying anything. I was basically powerless.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

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