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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. You had better have proven revenue, explosive growth, and an exit right around the corner if you want anything more that seed capital. Translation? Sort of a microinvesting strategy.