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7 Secrets To Bank Equity Funding Without Collateral

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. Here, too, focus on outside advisers as well as on key executives.

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7 Tips To Getting A Bank Interested In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. Here, too, focus on outside advisers as well as on key executives.

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Get a Technical Degree But Entrepreneurial Spirit

Startup Professionals Musings

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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How Can An Entrepreneur Qualify For A Bank Loan?

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition''s, and why it will succeed. Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. Here, too, focus on outside advisers as well as on key executives.

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A Savvy Startup Always Builds a Great Loan Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Show focus and your understanding that your company is something more than just a good idea. Here, too, focus on outside advisers as well as on key executives.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids

Tech Zulu Event

For those who haven’t heard of what Startup Weekend is all about, it’s building a company on STEROIDS! From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. Once the pitches were done we were given a cup and paper with our company name on it.

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