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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Deposit required to hold your terms.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Instead of a traditional business school''s case study and textbook approach, UCSB''s Technology Management Program (TMP) emphasizes experiential learning. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Organic Academia.

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What the 5 Stages of Grief Teach Us About Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Fables of the reconstruction.

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

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A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup.

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5 Stages of Disruption Denial Cause A Startup Dilemma

Startup Professionals Musings

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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10 Scams To Avoid While Seeking New Venture Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Deposit required to hold your terms.