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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. So, let’s start with the basics.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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