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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

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When you find yourself faced with a problem that no one else has managed to solve, you’ve landed on a solid-gold idea for your next side gig. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. Cisco, Google in the early days, Yahoo!

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How to Fund a Startup

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A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. Few startups get it quite right.