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Monetisation is Key to drive The Second Renaissance in the Creator Economy

VC Cafe

Creators are also increasingly becoming angel investors in B2C startups, similar to celebrity investments which are also on the rise, leveraging their profile to help their portfolio stand out. If you’re a founder in the creator economy with a fresh take on these issues, we’d love to hear from you!

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5 Keys to Moving From Entrepreneur Thinking To Action

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, you can bet I wasn’t convinced he would ever start his next proposal. Based on my experience, most startup failures occur simply because the founder gives up too soon, without exploring creative alternatives. Plan to learn from what doesn’t work, but never give up.

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10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup — Spook Studio — Medium

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups.

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Stephen Fry is tickled by Ticckle’s online video debate platform

The Next Web

Xan Blacker, co-founder of Ticckle, explained to The Next Web that Ticckle’s main aim was to “tickle your brain” through discussion of ideas – he actually doesn’t really like the word debate, he explained. Fry’s involvement is largely thanks to Blacker’s co-founder Richard Hardisty. It all sounds very light-hearted.

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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