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

Up and Running

With my adolescent dreams up in flames, I decided to get back at my unsupportive mom and dad the only way I knew how: I became an entrepreneur. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. And that choice became a different kind of fantasy entirely. David’s advice.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. The number of seed and angel investors has exploded in recent years, buoyed up by a number of factors. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. A name like 500 Startups says it all.