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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

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Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. A sample of three views is adequate.

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Riot Games Commits $10M To Minority Owned Game Studio Investments

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Los Angeles-based Riot Games is looking to help patch up rocky race relationships in the United States, saying over the weekend that it will invest $10M in minority-owned game studios, in addition to providing $1M to the Innocence Project and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), via is Social Impact Fund.

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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. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. A sample of three views is adequate.

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Former Guns N' Roses Drummer Creates Cryptocurrency Startup, Artbit

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According to the company, it was founded by Matt Sorum, Pablo Martins, Renan Monjon, Saulo Monjon, and Jean-Philippe Innocent, and it aims to allow unsigned and unrepresented artists--ranging form musicians,magicians, dancers, street artists, and street performers--to get "real compensation" for their work.

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10 Funding Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Skip

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Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.”

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

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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.

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SynergEyes Sees $13.3M

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in a Series C funding round. SynergEyes said that the round was led by De Novo Ventures, and also included Bio-Star Private Equity Fund along with prior investors Alloy Ventures, Delphi Ventures, InnoCal Venture Capital and Windward Ventures.

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