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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business. Rationale for Startup Investments.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

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Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature. Source VentureBeat ]. - November 29, 2012.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) How to have good startup? [.]