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Rolling Closes Versus Synchronous Closes

Haystack

The point is — there are so many companies forming, and so many seed rounds, and so many different types of seed rounds, and so many little preferences around those processes, that is hard to know what is kosher and what is not. Most of the rounds I participate in today are priced equity rounds. Payment may be delayed.

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

maplebutter.com

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

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