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Raising Funds? Avoid These 7 Costly Investor Relations Mistakes

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Evaluate investors thoroughly, not just based on the size of their check, but whether they can provide strategic advice and introductions that support your vision. Founders are so anxious to avoid the pain of missing payroll or running out of cash in the near term that they make hasty decisions on investors that cost them later.

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Not all money is created equal: A VC’s advice for founders

TechCrunch

So, where does this put you — the startup founder, entrepreneur or company executive? It’s a great time to be a founder. If you’re committed to building an enduring company and you want to, as Steve Jobs put it, “make a dent in the universe,” then this is the best time ever to be a founder.

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Be authentic, prepared: Rex Fong, founding partner at Capitale Ventures, tells startups

AsiaTechDaily

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Rather than tapping traditional VC funding, emerging venture stage companies went public at early stage (e.g. Remember Me.

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Growth marketing roundup: TechCrunch Experts, creative testing and how to nail your narrative

TechCrunch

For Airbnb, that may be the number of nights booked; for Spotify, minutes listened to. Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups : Founder of growth consultancy Marketing Cube Maya Moufarek joins Miranda Halpern for an interview as part of the TechCrunch Experts series.

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Lay groundwork first before selling to investors: Draper Associates’ James Walker tells pitching founders

AsiaTechDaily

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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Founder Rewind

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What advice would you give your past self? It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. Matt Lieber , Gimlet  — My advice to my younger self is to seek help.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014.

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