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Broke Girl's Guide Gets Funding

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Santa Monica-based Broke Girl's Guide , a startup focusing in on daily deals and information for women, has scored a small debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Broke Girl's Guide runs a daily deal newsletter with offers, online promos, and sales information. READ MORE>>.

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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according to a classic Crunchbase article. Here are a couple of concerns and possible negatives to avoid: More startups left in the funding gap.

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Kensh?, ‘the antithesis of Goop,’ launches a research-based guide to natural medicine

TechCrunch LA

The startup has also collected information to construct a research-backed guide to holistic health, something the team believes has been missing from the natural health sector. million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund. Berlincourt and Kensh?

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4 Principles Guide Every Socially Conscious Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course a profitable model isn’t required if you intend to rely totally on donations, or have deep pockets to fund your socially conscious efforts yourself. The idea has four principles guiding and underlying every business: Higher purpose. None of these positives obviate the need for a viable business model, in order to survive.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital.

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Funding and Guiding Your Company's Growth

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -- Funding and Guiding Your Company's Growth. How do you finance growth and transitional stages? Despite the current economic gloom, companies are growing, expanding and developing strategically. But how do they finance growth and acquisitions?

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Social proof is defined as “looking for others to guide our decision&# and it can be both explicit and implicit. You should, too. (no, So how does this apply to you?

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