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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion?

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion?

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8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? due diligence employees investors startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Validate The Pedigree Of A Startup Before You Jump

Startup Professionals Musings

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion?

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. Dont be misled by thisoptimism.

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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. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. – made compromises in early hiring decisions – choose expediency over talent/competency. Company : Untitled Partners.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And consequently, the burn rates are 10x larger than they were back then. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS).

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