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

Tim Keane

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.   Deals that were put together so poorly that the entrepreneur had little room to work.  Good deals do none of these things.  In all of these cases, the investors were individuals working with the entrepreneur directly.  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." And so forth.