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How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley?

VC Cafe

R&D outside SV is normally cheaper, so it helps you keeping your burn rate low. That being said, there are plenty of opportunities in developing markets like Russia and China, and people who are bold enough to take that level of risk will certainly have access to more a larger number of potential homeruns than we have in the US.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?” It’s humbling to spend time in India. ” And I’m all in on the company, and they’re doing well.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

ReadWriteStart

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. This taught me that we needed to having benchmarking tools incorporated into the development cycle from the beginning due to the nature of our product. I realized that money was not the issue.