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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. We just got him a network connection and that was it. Back then he advocated for.

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7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.