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StartupNation
MAY 16, 2025
Peer-to-Peer Lending Peer-to-peer (P2P) funding is usually done through a P2P website such as LendingClub, Kiva, Funding Circle, or Zopa. Funding a startup can be challenging, especially if you’re new to the game. There’s lots of competition. Many seek an alternative route as traditional funding doesn’t always work out.
Founders Coop
APRIL 29, 2024
In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2020
In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.
NZ Entrepreneur
DECEMBER 15, 2019
Here’s Joe’s advice on how you can do the same. I just YOLO’d it,” says Joe, a popular term in the game developer community, referring to giving something a go and working it out as you go along. I spoke to Joe Chang , who left his career in corporate IT after 15 years to pursue what he enjoyed and try his hand at entrepreneurship.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. Walton, who feels lucky to have survived, says the haunting experience made her an example of a reality she had long known: To be a pregnant Black woman is to be at risk , regardless of economic background.
FundersClub
JUNE 12, 2017
Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.
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