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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles'

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

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Every investor expects to see some traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

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African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

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We found that software wasn't being bought by the team members and product leaders who needed it, but was being bought by CIOs in large corporations. Dipanshu Sharpa: My third company raised a ton of money from venture funds--$26M--and I what I didn't want to do is to raise a lot of money and have lots of people.

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