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Are You Waiting For Capital To Launch Your Startup?

YoungUpstarts

Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. You will also need an advertising budget and sales/marketing professionals who can make that happen. That seems like a lot of capital. Find a cofounder.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1.

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

techcrunch.com

Might be kinda large market., It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Take that venture capital (say $6 mil?) … and give $200,000 to 30 fresh start ups instead. It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. just my opinion. next to nothing, charge? Translation?

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. CEO Marco Magnocavallo. Total cost: $100.