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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Interest on debt model.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Interest on debt model.

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Startup 101: “Open Source” Start up Legal Documents

VC Cafe

Legal docs don’t have to be a source of stress when you’re trying to set up a business. Don’t use these documents blindly ” Taylor Wessing – offers a suite of seed investment documents which are available on an open-source basis. Link: [link]. All docs are here: [link].

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.) These innovators want to create new and potentially disruptive business models. are assigned to work inside Horizon 3 organizations.

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Gust

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast.