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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Anti Matter Dude you are so on the money. Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!!

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

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If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. India’s Spotify, Dhingana, explodes past 15M active users, launches on Windows 8. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.