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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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Entrepreneurs need to find a way to get traction (sales) without funding. If entrepreneurs are only pitching to angel groups, they’re only pitching to 6% of the active angels, and 0.4% However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital. Furthermore, according to the IRS, about 3.9

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. Coats says they each had spent more than a decade in venture investing at that time, and agreed that the process of funding new companies had become “way too time-consuming” for entrepreneurs and most VCs.

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How To Get The Most Out Of A Startup Accelerator

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To find out how real startup founders dealt with the accelerator issue, we asked eight successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share their experiences – and their advice for other founders considering a startup accelerator. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston.

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

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But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. As an entrepreneur, I was initially very skeptical of fast-talking, expensive recruiters. Too many entrepreneurs don't actually know how to interview well.

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Fred Wilson Visits With the HBS Start-Up Tribe

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He observed that the entrepreneurs he has been most successful with typically had a major and personally defining failure in their career. Conduct extensive due diligence on the team, the product and the market opportunity. Entrepreneur and start-ups have many varied models for success.