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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. Manufacturing innovations like 3D printing support quicker and cheaper prototyping and design.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

www.businessinsider.com

Tech/Media. Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Media Jobs. Design Jobs. After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Is Bought By Social Media Management Service Hootsuite [Confirmed].

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The 37 Greatest Business Ideas for Young Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Kids are social media mavens. Not only can they draw others to their cause, but they can show others how to get the same results by properly using social media and internet marketing. 11 Jewelry Design. Designed pieces may be sold online or at local trade shows and church bazaars. #12 20 Use the Allowance as Seed Money.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

crowdSPRING Blog

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. Myth #5: Massive reach on social media matters.

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

After spending 14 months researching, designing and developing our capsule, we created a collection of business casual pieces for men and women out of sustainable/ eco-friendly fabrics. One of our best accomplishments in 2018 was improving our following and readership in general and increasing our social media presence.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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