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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Venture capitalists are used only after a startup has begun to show a significant amount of revenue.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.

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10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The easiest new source of revenue for the city would be areas where there’s already lots of illegal economic activity that doesn’t get taxed at all, but where legalization would actually bring regulation and improvements—namely, vices. Closing the carried interest tax loophole is something Trump said he was going to do when he campaigned.

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