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This Angel Investor Shares 11 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Raise Smart Money

StartupNation

However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Keep it short. Franklin D.

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Wrap-up of the Startup Community Leaders Mission USA 2018

Startup Catalyst

San Francisco, and the associated Bay Area, is home to Silicon Valley – the epicentre of startup activity – where an estimated 27,000 startups and 15,000 investors operate in an area roughly equivalent to the the Brisbane-to-Gold Coast region, and with a population of roughly 7 million people. Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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Set local traction before venturing overseas – John Lim, Partner, Meet Ventures, tells startups

AsiaTechDaily

. “If you can’t generate demand locally, it is usually even more difficult to generate demand overseas,” Lim said, adding that many good Series B/C startups he has come across already have significant traction at home before they embarked on overseas expansion. What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 billion) invested by the South Korean government. months at the sprawling 661,928m campus of Pangyo Techno Valley.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. But it also created two big problems for Techstars as a business: cash flow and brand identity.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Congratulations!

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