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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. Then in 2016 I found a dressmaker in Romania who created fashion-forward designs that were made to measure, and the light bulb went off!

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How to find the right cofounder

NZ Entrepreneur

In my opinion, founders or early stage companies should only have a team of two or three people. I thought I could do everything myself and outsourced the development to a company in Romania through a freelancing website – big mistake! If you’re scared about giving up on control or equity, then read on.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

The rise of CVC volume is well documented (see post on VC Cafe), but what’s less discussed is funds started by mature startups or “new corporates” These are funds launched by venture backed companies to deploy capital into early stage startups innovating in their space. “Mature” startup funds.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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THINK. TECH. DISCOVER.

Austin Startup

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. SeedInvest : Platform for early stage startups. Just how cool is that? I love every single second of it. Why do you need Help?

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