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

YoungUpstarts

Investing has always (and will always) come with a long laundry list of liabilities that can deter even the most experienced investors from making a generous contribution to a startup or early-stage company they believe in. The financial set up pertaining to any sealed investment is a crucial piece of the startup assessment puzzle.

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

Typical questions: What do you think of management? We discuss deal structures. Corporations need startups. Tags: Startup Advice. People call their friends. They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. How well do you know them?

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye. But there are tons of great startup folks so you need a narrower filter.

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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? In today’s sexy startup culture, buying an existing business has lost its vogue. They manage all the customer relationships. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. They make all the sales.

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10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels

VC Cafe

This summer, I had the pleasure to be a mentor at the Entrepreneurship Summer School , an elective at London Business School (my alma mater) where students are tasked with testing whether their startup ideas can turn into a fundable business over the course of three months. 10 tips for raising money from business angels.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportunity. The last thing a startup needs is MORE risk. credit: Wikipedia)). Which business has more value?

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportunity. The last thing a startup needs is MORE risk. credit: Wikipedia)). Which business has more value?

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