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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising.

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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Web-Based Worthworm Helps Determine PMV For Startup Investment Purposes

YoungUpstarts

“The reality is that there has not been a reliable, simple, or cost-effective way to calculate an early stage company’s valuation – which is why so many entrepreneurs and angel investors get it wrong,” says Alan Lobock, co-founder of Worthworm. ” Ideaspotting investment pre-money valuation valuation Worthworm'

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Advice For Managing Remote Teams

View from Seed

Meet our experts: Jessica Meher – Angel investor, startup advisor, and founder. EA : In our opinion, once the right frameworks have been set up, working remote is much more conducive high-quality communication. They discuss ways they engage with their remote employees and keep culture and team cohesion alive and well.

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4 things to know about crowdfunding versus raising capital

The Next Web

There will inevitably be delays as the SEC works to implement a new framework to support this legislation, but it would be wise for entrepreneurs to start comparing equity crowdfunding with their alternative options now. Let’s take a look at what equity crowdfunding looks like when compared to the traditional capital raising process.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Since I began incorporating the Investment Readiness Level framework I’ve made three observations. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. That way you can have the best of a fund that has deeper pockets and angels so you can have more people helping. What about “angel&# investors? Domain knowledge.