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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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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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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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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

socalTECH

I can't imagine starting a service, like Airbnb, Uber, and other now famous marketplaces, and starting with zero users on either the supply or demand side. David Baird: We have a deep product pipeline, with lots of enhanecments planned. We did not start from scratch on that side, either. It's tremendously hard.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

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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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

socalTECH

We built a product that was really, really deep, meant for the business traveler, got rid of manual entry, allowed for cash transactions when you're out in the field, records receipt images from your Blackberry or iPhone type of camera. Let's build a product, which automates all these expense reports and exports to all those systems.

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

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