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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Apptronik Systems

The Startup Magazine

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Has going through the process of trying to raise capital impacted your vision and strategy for your business? If so, how?

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Pick Your Investor With Care - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.    Just this morning,  he called to tell you how enthused he was.   I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.  Good deals do none of these things.  Bootstrapping.

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Who Gets To Break The News That Your Puppy is Ugly? - Startups.

Tim Keane

One of the speakers this afternoon, talking about helping entrepreneurs get ready to present to investors, said something like this: "Instead of letting people who I dont think are investable spend a lot of time on presentations to investors, I just tell them they either arent investable or shouldnt be in business."

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. Was amused to read about Right Side Capital this week.