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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues.

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How to Raise a Seed Round: Three Basic Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

The way the investor thinks about it is that, if you can’t figure out your way to network your way to [an investor],… then you’re unlikely to be able to network your way into hiring a great team, or network your way into selling your product to customers. (at In fact, in this new fundraising environment (with syndicates on AngelList , etc.),