Startup Professionals Musings

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors.

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David S. Rose – Father of Angel Investing in New York

Startup Professionals Musings

After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking.

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