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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Tyler Tringas, General Partner, observes, “Almost all of these new [RBI] forms of financing really only work for more mature companies (say $25-50k MRR and up) and there are still very few new options at the stage where we are investing.” Bigfoot Capital.

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Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

This is going to be BIG.

It is designed to leak. The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself. The entrepreneurs in New York City didn't learn how to run companies from their long histories at Amazon or Google--they learned from each other.