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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

Look to the company’s leadership to clarify where they’re headed and where they plan to be in a decade; at the very least, “the founder should be able to tell you the percentage of the market that they plan to capture over a specific time period and what type of growth potential they envision.”.

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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

Why start from scratch when you can get a great deal on what someone else started? But every year thousands of entrepreneurs become millionaires by buying and growing businesses without the startup headaches of venture capitalists, zero revenue, and no business processes. If you remove the owner, the business struggles and collapses.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator.