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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Since government grants are funded by tax dollars for specific industries and research, usage of grant funds is carefully monitored. For example, federal and state governments don’t provide grants for starting a business, paying off debts, or covering operational expenses. Extend your networking. Stringent spending controls.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

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Since government grants are funded by tax dollars for specific industries and research, usage of grant funds is carefully monitored. For example, federal and state governments don’t provide grants for starting a business, paying off debts, or covering operational expenses. Extend your networking. Stringent spending controls.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups.

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[Event] Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 To Hit Record 123 Countries

YoungUpstarts

In the United States alone, over 1,400 organizations – including top universities, non-profit organizations, startups, government agencies and corporate sponsors – will host Global Entrepreneurship Week events, Nov. GEW offers both virtual and face-to-face activities, ranging from large-scale competitions to intimate networking gatherings.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

crowdSPRING Blog

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. 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. Web search existed before Google.