North was recently quoted dropping some knowledge in the article, 5 Lifelines For You Startup on Entrepreneur.com.
Here’s an excerpt:
Evan Solida was stuck.
Solida, founder of Cerevellum, which sells digital rearview mirrors for bicycles, had posted his business plan on several websites promising to connect him with investors in exchange for a few hundred dollars.
Time passed. Investors never [...]
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Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, tagged Angel investing, efactor, Entrepreneur, funding, fundingpost, fundinguniverse, gobignetwork, raising money, startup, Support on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The scarcity of capital for early stage companies in recent years has lead to the creation of literally thousands of businesses focused on helping entrepreneurs raise money for their start-ups. At North, this subject is close to our hearts, as we’ve made it our mission to make the entire process for fostering, filtering, and funding [...]
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There’s no question that success comes through hard work and persistence. If that’s the case, why does the media focus only on those stories of achievement? Flip through the pages of Inc and Entrepreneur, or watch Donny Deutsch on the Big Idea and you’d think wild and immediate success is the norm for an entrepreneur. [...]
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Let’s not forget that entrepreneurs, and the investors that support them, need all the help they can get to turn their ideas into world-changing realities, and contrary to popular belief, more money is not the only answer.
The central issue is not with the quantity of ideas or number of willing investors, but rather in properly [...]
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