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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

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Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Despite these pundits, I sense a fundamental change in the early-stage financing eco-system. Lean startup. A popular phrase heard in this environment is “rinse and repeat.”

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What is the worst startup pitch ever?

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CluelessCo is an internet startup company seeking $2 million of equity financing to fund our company for at least one year. A Software-as-a-Service company using open source and cloud computing technologies. There are 4 main competitors to our business: (1) MSN, (2) Yahoo, (3), Google, and (4) Amazon. Contestant B.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Painting with Numbers , by Randall Bolten.

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