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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. We didnt just give canned presentations at trade shows.We Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions. Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. They didn’t have the ability to crowdfund or go to an incubator either, so they did the only thing they could do in 1996: work out of their garages.