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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited. If the pitch is offline, the audience is likely to small and mostly budding entrepreneurs.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. Try to sample your ideal audience, and not just anyone. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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Is Crowd-Funding the Answer When Investors Decline?

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited. If the pitch is offline, the audience is likely to small and mostly budding entrepreneurs.

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Don’t Count on Crowd-Funding to Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited. If the pitch is offline, the audience is likely to small and mostly budding entrepreneurs.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

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The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited. If the pitch is offline, the audience is likely to small and mostly budding entrepreneurs.

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Crowd-Funding is a Bad Approach for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited. If the pitch is offline, the audience is likely to small and mostly budding entrepreneurs.

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How to Start Your Own Business While You’re Still Employed

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Who is your target audience ? How will you distribute your product? Interview your target audience to see if they actually have the pain point, which you are about to solve. Conduct surveys to reach hundreds and thousands of target audience and analyze the result. Do you have a product? What are your major costs ?