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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Think twice before you jump in.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Think twice before you jump in.

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8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. due diligence employees investors startup'

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Validate The Pedigree Of A Startup Before You Jump

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Think twice before you jump in.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

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We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. ownership and never dilute.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital. They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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On the Road to Recap:

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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 there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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