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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. For some entrepreneurs, raising financing can seem like a full time job, particularly in these trying times. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. Well not, wrong exactly.

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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

But a slowdown in venture capital financing and questions about a technology bubble have led to many entrepreneurs and startups considering other avenues for growth. One of the countries gaining momentum with the early-stage start-up community is Canada, and for good reason. By contrast, San Francisco, the top ranked U.S.

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American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling

VC Adventure

But because of the lack of knowledge about how the financing system for small businesses and startups works (or doesn’t) in America, many people may miss the significance of the decision by the three-judge 11th circuit panel. The Alliance is striking a blow at the heart of private enterprise in America.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. This is an open-ended query and the most important question.). – What are your fundraising goals?

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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050. domestic market.

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Everything you need to know to create the next big company in Latin America

The Next Web

Juan Pablo Cappello is an investor in more than twenty early stage companies. That’s likely why it took us 450 years after being “discovered” to grab a map of the world, turn it on its head and put Latin America in the center of things (thanks to the Uruguayan artist and thinker, Joaquin Torres-Garcia ). and Canada.

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Support For Millennial Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

The Atlantic Council found that the early-stage entrepreneurial activity, which measures the rate of individuals actively involved in business start-ups, is highest in most countries for young entrepreneurs than for older ones. Almost half, 43 percent , say they’ve taken on debt to finance their new companies.