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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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19 Funding Resources for New and Existing Businesses

Up and Running

Equity Crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding takes the crowdfunding process to the next level. These sites function a lot like the sites listed above, but investors get equity in your startup. See Also Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding? Small Business Innovation Research Program. Here’s the fee structure.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. My hunch is that most good software engineers only work for cash because they don’t feel that working for equity is worth the risk of failure. I absolutely want cofounders when the time comes. But conceptually it does ring of some truth.

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What Do Startups Need Most Right Now?

ReadWriteStart

Epinions, which we started in 1998, had five cofounders instead of two, primarily because it was really hard to recruit early-stage employees without giving them cofounder equity.” If you’ve just come out of an accelerator program, big deal -so have lots of other companies. ” Top Startup Needs. Cofounders.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g., In the official program, publicize the names of donors based on their donation amount: High Donations : Executive Producers. shares, dividends).