Cofounder Customer Seed Money Small Business 
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Global venture funding hit a record high in the first half of 2021, with $288 billion being poured into early-stage businesses. Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first.
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Global venture funding hit a record high in the first half of 2021, with $288 billion being poured into early-stage businesses. Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. Customers can be reluctant to try something they don’t understand or they haven’t seen before. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
William Bygrave, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College, cautioned in an article for The Wall Street Journal: What we really don’t want to do is literally spend a year or more essentially writing a business plan without knowing we have actual customers. Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start.
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