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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It’s hard to build a business without a plan, just like it’s hard to build a house without a blueprint. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It’s hard to build a business without a plan, just like it’s hard to build a house without a blueprint. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It’s hard to build a business without a plan, just like it’s hard to build a house without a blueprint. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. It’s hard to build a business without a plan, just like it’s hard to build a house without a blueprint. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Ship a minimum product now.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. They kind of invented this business model. Google has optimized this open source to freemium model in almost all of its products.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. But I don’t think so. By doing the job.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. As a tech co-founder, I tend to approach getting involved in new ventures now very much as an angel investor would, and ask the following set of questions: 1. What is the product? They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary.