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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. With the exit, the entrepreneur and the original angel investors become fantastically rich and are lauded far and wide. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Or a paradise for investors? Are Investors Being Unreasonable?   If the entrepreneur can bootstrap.   (People I know are tired of hearing this, but we did bootstrap RTMS, Inc.