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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more.

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7 Creative Financing Options for New Businesses and Startups

StartupNation

While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Since accelerators are essentially investing in your business, they have a mutual interest in your success. Angel investing and venture capital (VC).

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Korea’s top accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2023 accepting applications from global startups  

AsiaTechDaily

The startup has attracted over $100 million in investments since 2017, with an $81 million Series B round in 2022. Bear Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup founded by ex-googlers, participated in KSGC 2017 and is now revolutionizing self-driving serving robots tailored for Korean cuisine internationally.

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5 Tips to Fight Busy-ness in Your Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Your job is to make yourself redundant from the day-to-day running of the business, so that you can focus on vision and mentorship: the things only you can do. Once you’ve set aside your “secret sauce” duties for later exploration, it’s essential that you begin to document your own personal processes for the duties you’d like to hand off.

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The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

Andreessen Horowitz

Beyond the inherent interest of these rankings, however, the data reveals several noteworthy trends around new and expanding categories, AI investment, and patterns of engagement. There are marked differences in how consumers interact with gen AI on web vs. mobile, as we’ll get into below. According to SensorTower data, Character.AI

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Startup Fundraising Playbook for 2024

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. Successful founders are not very happy when they raise a new round of investment, because they understand that they didn’t actually raise any money, they raised debt. If you don’t invest in yourself, why should I?

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea. Hongkong based startup XQuant, a leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis, won the second prize.