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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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Government Grants Cost No Equity, But are Not Free

Startup Professionals Musings

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

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Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk.

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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?

Berkonomics

If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. Your future rounds should be at higher valuations if you meet your plan, making dilution of your equity less onerous at that time. The more you ask for – the more equity you give up.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. That’s natural. That’s natural.