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

Tim Keane

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.   Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.    Deals that were put together so poorly that the entrepreneur had little room to work. 

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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. And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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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." And so forth.

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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.