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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

Much of this historically didn’t matter to entrepreneurs. ” Entrepreneurs can be caught in the middle. What a second, what about entrepreneurs? Sometimes entrepreneurs get screwed. Smart entrepreneurs have often used this competition / appetite to invest to their advantage.

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5 Steps To Get Ahead With The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Be prepared to experiment.

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part I

socalTECH

which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. We've deliberately left out in-house incubators, and programs which don't follow the class-based format (we'll cover those next). However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

InfoChachkie

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Challenging. My courses are rigorous and demanding.

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Can you guess 10 tests for your success?

Berkonomics

Your success must be based upon data that is solid and sometimes flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Do you have a world-class management team? Great wealth is made from selling great businesses at immense profit for the entrepreneurs and investors who took the journey.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims.

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