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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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10 Reasons To Market Globally While Selling Locally

Startup Professionals Musings

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people.

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

TechCrunch LA

After all, Glossier’s founder and CEO Emily Weiss is very, very far from the first entrepreneur to profit off of our desire to look good. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If And who cares?

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.