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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Hillcrest Merchant Partners concentrates on investing their own capital in early stage companies, and advisory areas that include equity and debt structuring, reverse takeovers, M&A advisory and private to public processes. Some specialize in one arena, like green technology.

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Lifting the Founder’s Curse: Unlocking Business Value Beyond Yourself

Duct Tape Marketing

Our discussion begins with his latest book, “ Get Scalable: The Operating System Your Business Needs to Run and Scale Without You. 04:05] How does the operating system viewpoint apply to business owners? [05:54] Today we're going to talk about a new book called Get Scalable, the Operating System. So Ryan, welcome back.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. From a pattern matching perspective, it makes sense that we’d prefer founding CEOs, but as I said in an earlier post, pattern matching is not knowledge. Their emotional commitment exceeds their equity stake. Motorola—Paul Galvin.