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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Startup Professionals Musings

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. But these won’t help you much finding investors, key executive hires, and pitfalls to avoid in the real world.

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Most Great Entrepreneurs Don’t Drop Out of Harvard

Startup Professionals Musings

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. But these won’t help you much finding investors, key executive hires, and pitfalls to avoid in the real world.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). They risk money they can afford to lose. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed. Option Two: Post-Launch?—?Raise

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Get a Technical Degree But Entrepreneurial Spirit

Startup Professionals Musings

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. But these won’t help you much finding investors, key executive hires, and pitfalls to avoid in the real world.

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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

Gust

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. But these won’t help you much finding investors, key executive hires, and pitfalls to avoid in the real world.

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From “Good Idea” to Funded Tech Startup: Building Hallspot

Up and Running

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

We know this: As many as a thousand companies who’ve received seed rounds won’t be around in a year — maybe six months. There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. The number of seed and angel investors has exploded in recent years, buoyed up by a number of factors.