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crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
The tale of companies who created businesses out of brand new ideas is a rare one. Web search existed before Google. 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. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.
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