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Founder Interview: Bill Walsh on Eliminating Small Business Failure

The Startup Magazine

Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. Get access to low cost capital. Call all of your best customers. Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world! Stay the course.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

For the past decade, Capital Factory has been building a pipeline of tech startups and investment rights and now we’re opening up to everyone through AngelList. The Capital Factory Texas Fund is backed by many of the most successful CEOs and technology investors in Texas and across the U.S.,

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Every founder and startup investor should be contrarian

The Equity Kicker

In the world of startups and venture capital all the money is concentrated in a small number of winners and average returns are probably below zero. Certainly they aren’t sufficient to compensate for the high risk and long lock up inherent in startup investing. It’s actually a surefire recipe for losing money.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

Both Sides of the Table

I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected. Every founder knows this.

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How to Do Research on VCs (Written by a VC)

View from Seed

In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. Talk to Your Startup Friends. Just keep in mind that for any given firm there are hundreds of VC/startup interactions in a given year. So how can entrepreneurs do research on us VCs?

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Rolling Closes Versus Synchronous Closes

Haystack

If you have conviction : invest and help the founder finish their round with good intros to other investors. There is a process the founder goes through, he or she collects interest, and then works on closing the round with their lawyers at a fixed time. For any startup selling an annual license, the deal may not get signed right away.