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The Role of Alternative Funding in Startups

StartupNation

Peer-to-Peer Lending Peer-to-peer (P2P) funding is usually done through a P2P website such as LendingClub, Kiva, Funding Circle, or Zopa. Getting a loan on this kind of site requires a compelling pitch. You need a good pitch and must have (or develop) marketing skills. There’s lots of competition.

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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. Or contrarian in the number of companies and/or dollars invested per company compared to their peers. But we’re interested in taking this risk when the person and opportunity warrants it.

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Partnership Judo: Don't work against people when vying for a partnership position

This is going to be BIG.

This person was feeling anxious, not just about the competition between themselves and a peer on the team, which was causing some internal friction, but also about the threat of a partner being brought in from the outside. Is your firm feeling like Two VCs enter, one must leave given the limited number of partnership slots?

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Pitch me!

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. The first question I always get, which I find endlessly hilarious, is "Don''t you get tired of people pitching you all the time?". That''s, well, a big chunk of the job.

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EO Accelerator Graduates Share Successful Growth Tactics and Why They Joined EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

EOA supports growth through direct learning, access to mentors, leaders, peers, and experts. That’s an 86% success rate of Accelerator grads joining EO because of the direct learning, access to mentors, leaders, peers, and experts that made it irresistible to join EO. EO supports entrepreneurs at every age and stage.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

Whether you're at a Plug and Play, Dogpatch, General Assembly or just hanging out in the lobby of an Ace Hotel, you're never that far from a peer group of startups in any big city. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.