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The SME Instrument: How Innovative Startups Can Receive EU Funding?

Transformify

To boost innovation and SME sector growth, the EU Commission has launched the SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 program – the largest non-dilutive fund in the world. Why non-dilutive? The submission forms have been simplified and adapted to the business language too. It is a grant, not an equity funding. Not necessarily.

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How to Build a Healthcare Startup

Up and Running

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. However, you can certainly raise some of the capital through bootstrapping and the rest via seed funding.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

We appreciate you writing back and letting us know what you thought of the episode, and of course for the rest of our listeners if you are interested in contacting us, you can do that by emailing bcast@bplans.com. Our business model was Pinterest. It’s been a great help to my work. That’s bcast@bplans.com.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.