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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

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And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” My next venture didn’t fare much better. David’s advice.

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A Year in Review: 2016

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At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.