Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

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.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. Any mention of “offshore.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

Any mention of “offshore”. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Tags: angel funding startups bernie madoff fraud business. Remember the old newspaper publishing rule of “All facts must be verified by two independent sources.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I asked him if he wouldn't mind sitting down with me, and he helped me develop the business model, and suggested that I work with some offshore developers on automating the system. Adi Jaffe: Our next step is really trying to get some angel level funding. Finally, what's the next step for your company?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

But, there are not many funded players in the space. A very small amount of those sites have had funding, but there are certainly websites about lists. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. Most of that funding is going towards staffing up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Look for a background and experience in your industry, as well as quality and style. Conduct a routine credit and criminal check, using commercial services like HireRight.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Offshore Invest Social Network 96

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Look for a background and experience in your industry, as well as quality and style. Conduct a routine credit and criminal check, using commercial services like HireRight. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.

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Offshore Entrepreneur Invest Social Network 89

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

This is why I am such a big fan of General Assembly both because they’re teaching more tangible skills but also because they’re working directly with employers to fund classes as well as to onboard the more successful GA students directly. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. I don’t believe it.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. Often, I can get clients to fund efforts to learn new tech because nobody else knows it, either, and we all need to learn it. Fourth is embracing change.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. Often, I can get clients to fund efforts to learn new tech because nobody else knows it, either, and we all need to learn it. Fourth is embracing change.

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Offshore Examples Email Software 120

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

Those cultural normals are established through human connections: the night we all stayed late to get that release out the door, the day we celebrated our funding round or the day we landed our first big account. If they’re not I won’t fund. What about offshoring? I have another exception.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

We invest large sums of our after-tax money into our funds and this gets a long-term capital gain tax rate when we make a profit. So politicians work with wealthy people to create laws that make it easy to shield wealth and income from taxes by moving money offshore. It is seldom ever mentioned. VCs also get large tax breaks.

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