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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

The feedback on the product has been positive so far according to Elite and Alon Fargo, the husband and wife co-founders of FootTraffic: “We were selected as a promising start-up by seedcamp, “Israeli Ne Media Delegation” led by Dr. Yossi Vardi and TFL (Technion for Life) group led by Mr. Reuven Agassi.

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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. Recruiting While In Stealth Mode. The Importance of Using Social Media to Find Talen. If you read further back in the blog, you'll see that 2009 wasn't a very good year for me (and a lot of other people, too). Happy Holidays! Pitch Your Compan.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Let me be the first one to state that fundraising does not equal success – some of the best companies are bootstrapped for a long time and raise money only sparingly, if at all. billion to date.

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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. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff. Stick a fork in it.