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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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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

link] Security. ???????? ????????? ???????. ??????? ???? ?????????? ? ???????????. ????? ????????????. The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Watson. [.]

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Tiered Valuation Caps

Austin Startup

The valuation cap has evolved into a proxy for valuation, even though by definition it is in fact a cap on valuation, and if things go south, the actual valuation at which the security converts goes downward with it. Convertible notes and SAFEs are optimally designed for providing this kind of valuation flexibility.

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

After spending 14 months researching, designing and developing our capsule, we created a collection of business casual pieces for men and women out of sustainable/ eco-friendly fabrics. . #1- Launching our first collection. Photo Credit: Brittany Bowers. Our best accomplishment of 2018 was the launch of our first collection.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Despite what some vendors may say, all languages scale, and its hard to argue that one language is fundamentally less secure than another. Java has a fair amount of syntax in common in common with some of the.NET languages which were designed by Microsoft to counter Javas success.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.