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6 Strategies To Find An Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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6 Tips On Where And When To Look For Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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6 Places To Find The Right Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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FootTraffic Offers an API for Location-Based Offers

VC Cafe

Advertisers would normally have to go through agencies and it would cost them additional time and money. We’ll be able to start partnering soon (we are currently under Alpha-stealth mode).” FootTraffic is bootstrapped and is looking to raise funding. That’s the problem that Israeli startup FootTraffic wants to solve.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business. It seems like you were looking more for someone to code your site without much cost, than someone with total buy in to your idea and to you as an individual. So to close, a technical co founder and a low cost consultant are not the same thing.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.” Stick a fork in it.