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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. I know I’m supposed believe in acquihires to bury my investments that aren’t working. I’ll tell you what is says. Go do a startup. Woo the press.

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Large Corporations Fail To Innovate Like Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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