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‘Dear Abby’ Style Advice to Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

You will find that investors don’t often invest in a services business, since there are no assets for equity, and banks don’t lend money to someone with no credit and a mortgage problem. I am retired but formerly have been a marketing director and involved in CPA financial services.

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Beware The Consultant

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Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. from the Wharton School.

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