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Accelerator Spotlight: Waivr

View from Seed

It just wasn’t designed for the type of recurrency that the subscription economy has shifted our financial lives to. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? I grew up outside of Philadelphia, went to Cornell University for college, and then lived in Manhattan for 4 years post-grad.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

After a highly competitive national selection process designed to identify high growth potential start ups led by women and minorities, six companies have been selected to present to HBSAANY accredited investors. The classification invests in companies led by both Harvard and non-Harvard alums opposite all industries. domestic market.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

After a highly competitive national selection process designed to identify high growth potential start ups led by women and minorities, six companies have been selected to present to HBSAANY accredited investors. The classification invests in companies led by both Harvard and non-Harvard alums opposite all industries. domestic market.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. You can reach Chris at www.nothingtosay.com and @ChrisFRC.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

4 ] Seed Funding Firms Seed firms are like angels in that they invest relatively smallamounts at early stages, but like VCs in that theyre companiesthat do it as a business, rather than individuals making occasionalinvestments on the side. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages.