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Why Does Startup Pricing Vary by Location?

Entrepreneurs seem genuinely surprised to find that investors in Peoria or Little Rock are not willing to invest in startup companies at Silicon Valley prices.  After all, they just read in TechCrunch that investors funded a company similar to theirs at an $8 million pre-money valuation! The valuation of startup companies shouldn’t be impacted by […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
15 May 2015
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How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing

This is a grim fairy tale about a mythical company and its mythical founder. While I concocted this story, I did so by drawing upon my sixteen years of experience as a venture capitalist, plus the fourteen years I spent before that as an entrepreneur.  I’m going to use some pretty simple math and some […]
Romain Debordeaux
Heidi Roizen , Operating Partner , Draper Fisher Jurvetson
14 May 2015
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US Crowdfunding in 2014

Crowdfunding is the practice of raising money for a project or venture from a large number of people utilizing an Internet website or platform.  Funding from each individual can be quite small, $10 or less, although some projects have much higher minimums.  Projects include films, musical recordings, new companies, products, inventions, personal causes and many others. Since […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
4 May 2015
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The Discipline of Execution Defines an Entrepreneur

When entrepreneurs come to me with that “million dollar idea,” I have to tell them that an idea alone is really worth nothing. It’s all about the execution, and investors invest in the people who can execute, or even better, have a history of successful execution. Execution is making things happen, and for startups it […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
14 Dec 2014
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10 Incentives for Entrepreneurs to Bootstrap their Startup

Image via Pixabay I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company. In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
7 Dec 2014
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