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The Founder and Investor Trust Problem: It's not what you think.

This is going to be BIG.

Founders seem to get that. Don’t get me wrong—I don’t mean trust in the sense that VCs think founders are just going to get a fake passport and move to Fiji, or that investors are secretly plotting to take over the company. Maybe that would be helpful for a founder to share: “I’m excited to have you as part of this round.

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How Startups Can Benefit From Cloud Accounting

YoungUpstarts

by Sam Michaels, founder and managing editor of Cloud Accounting Today . This means you can have all of the information at your fingertips whether you’re at the office or on vacation in Fiji. Productivity can be maintained at a high standard regardless of your location or the hour of the day. Remote Culture. Lower Cost.

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Millennial CEO Disrupts Bottled Water Industry

Hearpreneur

So I started to put together the Waiakea brand with my Hawaiian cousin and my co-founder Matt over the next 3 years focusing on these 3 pillars of Health, Sustainability, and Ethics/Charity, and we finally launched in 2012. . Tell us about your business and what you do. . . Better to light a candle than curse the darkness if you will.

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