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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Fundraising debt.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. The other major thing Graham advises startups not to do: “other things” Namely: [D]on’t go to graduate school, and don’t start other projects. Distraction is fatal to startups.

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