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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed not worth investment.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed not worth investment.

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor].

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7 Steps To A New Business From An Innovative Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.