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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. That’s hard core. Not my problem.

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money.

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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.