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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. When Larry and Sergey first began BackRub (which would eventually become Google), they didn’t run to a venture capital firm or angel investor. image credit: Paul Cross.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.)