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8 Reasons Business Plans Fail That No One Wants to Talk About

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No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. If the business idea requires 80 percent of the labor hours to be performed by a software programmer, then the team needs at least one developer onboard. She has helped several firms optimize their business strategies before they pitch to angel investors in the local region.

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Building a sweat equity team

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .