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Founder Interview: Bill Walsh on Eliminating Small Business Failure

The Startup Magazine

Bill is an accomplished author, speaker, radio personality and movie celebrity, With a very successful background in finance and marketing, he has spent two decades working with start-ups to major global brands increasing sales, productivity and overall success. Get access to low cost capital. Call all of your best customers.

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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

I personally believe that one of the major drawbacks to venture capital in Europe is chronic under-financing and people skirt around this issue. We keep hearing about lean start-ups and how much costs have dropped when launching and growing a business. Initial costs are peanuts to get something up and running.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

With nearly 2/3rd of all VCs citing cost-cutting in 2016 as the norm — this is a clear indication that winter made an appearance. This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. This chart surprised me the most.