North Mindmeld: New School Number Crunchers

Adeo Ressi, the founder of the TheFunded.com has joined a long list of entrepreneurs and investors that say that the venture capital industry is broken. However, Ressi decided to put his (didn’t use outsider funds) money where his mouth was and built a site that allows entrepreneurs to critique and rate the actual audience that [...]

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Focus On Effiency

The following excerpt is taken from Breaking Through The Broken: The Transparent Guide To Overcoming The Inefficiencies In Early Stage Venture Capital.
A good presentation with a good PowerPoint given by an individual with a strong personality can easily sway a room full of investors into cutting a check. Investors need to be sure they’re [...]

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Quantity Over-Shadowing Quality

Before the Internet, entire industries emerged that helped investors find “good” entrepreneurs; trade shows, print publications, and an army of investment banking connectors who helped investors and entrepreneurs find each other (for a chunky fee of course). You can spend half your career (and life savings) at trade shows and more often than not all [...]

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