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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

One of the terms we coined there was a “seagull.&# We used it to describe certain of our partners (e.g. Seagulls were the partners who didn’t spend much actual time on your project. Seagull VC’s (like some of my old Seagull Andersen Consulting Partners) are smart people, don’t get me wrong.

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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

Khan came up with the Smart Parka concept after enjoying five Canadian winters in the years since he moved to Toronto from his native Pakistan. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions. million, making it one of Kickstarter’s most successful crowdfunding ever in Canada.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet.