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5 Factors That Set Your Best Startup Funding Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the realm of the angel investor, who wants to own a piece of the new business, and probably knows how to run it and wants a seat on the Board.For B2B startups, every investor expects to see a proven business model, with a working prototype, and preferably a real customer or two.

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5 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

“The Internet is the first place most people turn to find information and learn virtually anything, but there’s no sense of organization — you have to stumble through, often running into dead ends along the way,” says Kris Chinosorn, who started MentorMob with fellow University of Illinois graduate and co-founder Vince Leung. “At

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Females Seeking Funding

YoungUpstarts

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. In fact, I found that if they didn’t like something about our business model, they usually didn’t say anything.

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