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6 Strategies To Find An Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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6 Tips On Where And When To Look For Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. Convertible or equity? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. My assertion was that information flows outside of their process. People call each other.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? What are you working on now?

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. link] Stan James.

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6 Places To Find The Right Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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