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Tech Coast Angels
Tech Coast Angels (TCA) is one of the most successful angel groups in the country and has been supporting innovative companies since 1997.
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Bootstrapping Your Startup
Funding Choices When talking to startup founders I very often see people who don’t understand how the funding actually works. No matter if you have done it before or this is your first startup, it is never easy to get things running. The only way to reduce the frustration and Read more…
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Getting Venture Capital Funding
Considerations When Seeking Venture Capital Probably the most important thing when seeking venture capital funding, as with any other type of funding is to show at the right places where “seekers are seeking”. In other words, you need to get in front of venture capital firms. Asking for money is Read more…
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Venture Capital Funding Explained
Venture Capital Definition What is venture capital and why use it? How much can a startup raise from a venture capital company? At what stage of a startup development is the right time to seek venture capital help. Venture capital is a type of financing that is associated with high-risk Read more…
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Startup Series Of Funding And How It Works
Challenges When Raising Funds When we discuss the process of raising money for a startup it is usually assumed that we talk about diluted (equity) funding. This simply means that you will be giving away ownership of your company. Non-diluted funding means you will be getting money, but will not Read more…
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Using Root Cause Analysis Technique as Existential Justification for Startups
The 5 Why method and the extended version is seen as asking 5 Whys to make a root cause analysis: Who.,What, When, Where, and Why. This is widely accepted in practice and is adapted to answer our goal – to justify the existence of a startup.
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Alternative Funding For Startups
Why you need funding Even if you decided to bootstrap your company, it is still a valuable idea to review the opportunity to be funded. What would the reasons be? I had already posted a few months ago the question if you really need to look for investors. And the reasons Read more…
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Alex Bedoret explains how he can help early stage startups
Alex from Make It has experience helping very early-stage entrepreneurs Alex explains that it usually is not very easy to find a startup that is in the early stages that fit his and Make It criteria. Most of the startups already have or are working on an MVP, when they Read more…
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Discussion with Alex Bedoret about early stage startup investment
Alex from Make It talks about his criteria to pick startups to invest in How Make It defines what is an interesting investment Make It is a venture builder venture studio, which means that they invest in very early-stage startups, what Alex calls “idea stage” company. As soon as they Read more…
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How much is your idea worth?
You have a big idea! How much is it worth? Movies, press, and media helped develop the bizarre notion that ideas themselves have a monetary value. We have been told again and again by different stories that ideas not only have value but rather all the value of a company Read more…