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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors.

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Reshoring, New USA Manufacturing Trend?

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

This not a social innovation business, it’s a for-profit venture that just happens to be clean, green, and job creating. The newco is called Integrated Green Technologies (IGT) and the good news is the business plan couldn’t be more clear or exciting. Manufacturing jobs are a staple of a properly diversified economy.

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A Well Intentioned Bad Idea That Should Not be Stopped

Venture Chronicles

The visa that this act would empower isn’t new either, it is the EB-5 visa for foreign investors who commit at least $500k of capital and create 10 jobs according to a complex matrix of “allowed activities&# dependent on whatever regional center the investment is located in. venture capital. and available for U.S.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. I think I just really feared working for the Man.