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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. For example, Softtech and True Ventures funded FitBit. Following an iterative manufacturing process. Patents versus traction.

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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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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth. They used the money to hire a bigger tech team so they could roll out their second product line.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I agree completely. link] Dejan Strbac.

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How You May be Signaling Price without Knowing It

Both Sides of the Table

That’s OK if it’s your problem as long as your business really is differentiated and compelling. His company had raised seed money already. Obviously the diagnosis can have many route causes: Sometimes it’s a question of a market that is less sexy than the current VC fad. It was the silent killer.

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