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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. A few nuggets. 1) Hire A’s. A’s hire B’s, B’s hire C’s.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. And the globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least 100-fold since the turn of this century. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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