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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking Or Face Economic Calamity

YoungUpstarts

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

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What Buying Habits Tell Marketers About Each Generation

YoungUpstarts

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

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Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled

Austin Startup

Employers who are honest will tell you it’s mostly one thing: curation; various filters (admissions, testing, etc.) Pragmatically, accelerators offer entrepreneurs a curated bundle of resources (a network of entrepreneurs and advisors, faster access to investors, education, some initial money, etc.) It depends on whom you ask.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Fundraising: Advice From Founders to Investors

Austin Startup

Feedback to investors about what helps and doesn’t help founders when fundraising. I originally asked this question to several founders with the intent of addressing angel investors but I’ve found it doesn’t exclude other institutional investors either. super classy!”

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. Among the contributors are Quora regulars including Tim Berry , Antone Johnson , Martin Zwilling and me.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Meaning I’ve got a direct relationship with my customers and I send them daily curated things that I know they’re going to enjoy and like or that they have self- selected.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Investors (mainly hedge funds at the time), needed a way to quickly understand an industry they were going to invest in. Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data.

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