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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Bridge or exit stage.

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How to Fund Your Startup Without Losing Control

Up and Running

Background: Justin Klemm’s analytics and website uptime startup, Ghost Inspector , wants to revolutionize the way businesses manage their ecommerce funnels. By contrast, obtaining a pre-money valuation of $5 million for a business with a new viable product and even very minimal sales is somewhat reasonable.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Is Bootstrapping Hindering Your Business Competency?

YoungUpstarts

While most of the startup blogs and magazines focus on the VC fundings and their million dollar valuations, the truth is that a whopping majority of entrepreneurship stories are never shared. In such a scenario, the business may not reach its targets and may risk losing market share to a funded startup rival.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Others are cutting their valuations. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” Days 3 and 4: Prepare new business model and operating plan. What does your board suggest?

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

The global automakers and suppliers will be adapting their business models accordingly, forming new partnerships and investing in new technologies. 9- Online management and accountability software. However, actual business productivity and real-time performance trackers are yet to adapt to remote work environments.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. CS169.1x: Software as a Service. Raising money for a startup from an angel investor : Learn pre-money and post-money valuations are.