The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If all else fails and your business model goes belly up, you still have your studies to rely on for future prospects. For instance, many colleges will hold business plan competitions. In return, you may be able to get your hands on some seed money for your college startup. Fast internet speeds.

Seed Money 91

Seed Money Startup eCommerce .Net 91

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Factoring companies can help you with working capital needs when your business grows quickly by filling the money “gap” created between new billings and actual collections.

Intellectual Property 76

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. For business people its roulette.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I need money for the servers. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. No raising money. I don’t know any developers. No phone system.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84