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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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