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7 Creative Financing Options for New Businesses and Startups

StartupNation

You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article. Related: This Entrepreneur Shares How She Bootstrapped Her Startup (and How You Can, Too). Startups are always risky, so jeopardizing your personal relationships a risk you should avoid if possible.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Forget Scrum Masters. Focus on Outcomes.

Reforge

About the Experts Ely Lerner Ely, former Head of Consumer Product at Chime, currently advises Product-led startups looking to cross the chasm from traction to hypergrowth. We’ll tackle these questions in this article. Timely communication wasn’t just about Slack, it came largely in the form of document commenting as well.

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Startup Fundraising Playbook for 2024

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. That’s what makes this a little bit different from articles you usually read about fundraising. Fundraising is different for each startup, and it’s also very different in each stage of that startup. Still no new email. Refresh again. Still nothing.

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