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

Up and Running

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. My next venture didn’t fare much better. David’s advice. Rob’s advice.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

The reality is that few venture capitalists are ready to write a check to a hardware startup today, and it’s not all due to the risk. In the software space, it is commonly accepted that barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

On November 28, 2012. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “That’s independent of how much money VCs have or how many companies funded. “I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. November 29, 2012.