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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds. Looking ahead to 2017.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Startup Professionals Musings

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Most Great Entrepreneurs Don’t Drop Out of Harvard

Startup Professionals Musings

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Get a Technical Degree But Entrepreneurial Spirit

Startup Professionals Musings

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Gust

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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[Interview] Toronto’s Michael Beattie, Founder And CEO Of MBM Consulting

YoungUpstarts

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. And it doesn’t matter if its finance, IT, procurement, whoever – we have these group discussions in structured meetings with minutes and expectations that are set out. The end result?

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money.