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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. 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

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. 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

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.