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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

The Latin American startup scene is attracting more and more attention and investments. Here’s a look at what’s fueling startup investments in Colombia. Colombia is not new to the startup scene , but it is beginning to garner increased attention from foreign VCs. A growing, increasingly connected consumer base.

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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup advisor and angel investor, I tend to focus on the much longer list of ways your startup can fail, based on my own experience and inside knowledge from peers who you will never see highlighted on the Internet. It’s a good way to get some inspiration, but not an accurate representation of reality.

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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I still remember when Dean Kamen launched the Segway Human Transporter in 2002, predicting a transportation paradigm shift, and geared up to sell 10,000 per week for the next five years. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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What Startups Need to Know About Exit Strategies

Up and Running

Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it. Exit strategies related to startup funding are quite often misunderstood: The “exit” in exit strategy is for the money, not the startup founders or small business owners. last December.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! 1) Twitter. 4) WhatsApp. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live. It wasn’t true for me either.

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Is your startup suffering from a dysfunctional team? then this book is for you

VC Cafe

The top reason startups fail is lack of market need. But if you dig deeper, one of the reasons startups run out of cash or don’t find product market fit is ineffective teams. Startup CEOs would benefit from understanding the answers to these questions: Do team members openly and readily disclose their opinions?

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