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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

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And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. reviews, reputation, Yelp!, We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” David’s advice. Adi’s advice.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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I need money for the servers. Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers.