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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. It’s no fun for either side. Investor agreements should always be reviewed by an attorney who is familiar with startup equity investment deals.

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The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers

Both Sides of the Table

It starts seemingly innocent enough. I know some will read this as an indictment of all introductions and of course it’s not that. I try to steer entrepreneurs away from over-introducers and I often find myself wanting to be careful about them becoming an investor in companies I back.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. It’s no fun for either side. Investor agreements should always be reviewed by an attorney who is familiar with startup equity investment deals.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If I mean, there’s a number of things that went wrong throughout the course of his tenure that were never brought up.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. It’s no fun for either side. Investor agreements should always be reviewed by an attorney who is familiar with startup equity investment deals.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. It’s no fun for either side. Investor agreements should always be reviewed by an attorney who is familiar with startup equity investment deals.

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. Not highlighting people is as deadly as not highlighting the solution.

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