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Raising Funding From Your Friends and Family: Here’s How to Do It Right

By on August 7, 2012 in Funding

Even if you plan on living on ramen while building a new company, you’ve got to have a little cash, if only to pay for the ramen itself. One option to get that money is to raise funds from your friends and family. There’s an obvious danger here: if anything goes pear-shaped, you’re going to [...]

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5 Investor Questions You Have to Be Able to Answer

By on July 24, 2012 in Funding

You need to know your business inside out before you even start thinking about looking for investments. But even if you’ve got a grasp on the numbers and the market, there are some questions that can still stop you in your tracks. Investors may very well ask you questions you consider very personal or even [...]

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Startup Founders Desperately Need Great Stories: Here’s Why

By on May 15, 2012 in Entrepreneurship

Do you want to found a company? Do you want to get into an accelerator? Do you want to make sales? Then you need to have amazing stories to tell. All other criteria being equal, we make decisions based on who interests us — who has great stories to tell and examples of just how [...]

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