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6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). I still don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. Why it’s great: Netted offers users access to a large audience of potential customers and investors. Hence, their editorial mission: Better living through the Internet.

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6 Reasons Startups Need All Angels Plus Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). I still don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S.

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How Humans and Everyday Tech Can Outmatch AI

YoungUpstarts

It’s become taboo to discuss AI’s shortcomings and the limitations of machine learning, neural nets, and deep learning. Neural nets require far too much data to match human intellects. Worse still, each time you need to recognize a new type of item, you have to start from scratch. AI lacks common sense. Wood, Esq. Wood, PLLC.

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Crowd Funding Has Not Killed Angel Investing Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

They have enough confidence in themselves to leave without the safety net of a future pension as well as the energy, ambition, and know-how to navigate uncertainty. If you find an A-player CIA officer jumping into a founder role mid-way in their career (or decide to start something yourself,) they’ll probably go on to do great things.