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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure new solutions offered actually build your brand, rather than dilute it. Major leading-edge (also called bleeding-edge) products or technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the Internet of Things (IoT), involve new concepts, time for acceptance, and focus on understanding value.

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6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort

Startup Professionals Musings

The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. I still don’t see it happening any time soon. They will need more money.

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How to Invest in Startups – Indian Edition

The Startup Magazine

Of late, with the advent of new technology and the spread of the internet to nearly all corners of the country, Indians have taken up a new kind of shop! The equity dilution at this nascent stage is on desirable terms; such investing can lead to profitable returns. Are you wondering how to invest in startups in India? 2) Seed funding.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. So it’s like this same fund actually invested $2.5M

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6 Reasons Startups Need All Angels Plus Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , and the latest stages of the Jobs Act , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. They will need more money.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. So it’s like this same fund actually invested $2.5M

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, what I see in this Internet age is information overload, and new product differentiation is harder than ever before. Don’t confuse and dilute your potential customer base by weakly trying to appeal to all. I now use them exclusively. Target most relevant customer segments first.

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