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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

They have a stringent screening process with many requirements for approval—an experienced management team, a sizeable market, a business plan complete with financial projections, and satisfaction of their due diligence process—but the payoff is in the potential of hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding.

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The 10 Questions I Didn’t Expect to Be Asked by Investors

Up and Running

If you’re raising money for your company and you want to pitch to angel investors or venture capitalists , then there are a few important things to know that savvy investors care about. If investors find your pitch interesting, they will want to begin what’s called the due diligence process.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. We’re business owners, we aren’t all getting angel investment, so one of the principles of the lean business plan is you do what you’re going to use.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. What are my ideal match’s skill sets, background, age, geography, work style, level of commitment, compensation requirements, friend vs. new acquaintance, etc…?