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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

For current founders, in our hyper-pressurized worlds of being incubated, accelerated, and constantly switching modes between pitching and executing, how do we successfully navigate the labyrinth to success? Nurture your network: they are an entrepreneurs’ biggest assets. by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession.

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10 Ways Entrepreneurs Find Money To Start A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts). It was organized by Diane Roberts of Xcell Partners and held at the StartupBaseCamp accelerator in Dublin. Later that afternoon, we visited the phenomenal new Titanic Experience – Not to be missed!

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Let Me Count The Ways Entrepreneurs Fund Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.