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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/07/2018.

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Apply Hospitality-Driven Thinking to Your New Venture

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As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/22/2018.

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

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He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company. That is all gearing up for a Series A funding, which will happen in the summer of 2018. He's based in LA. I went to Michigan with him.

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7 Signals Of A Future Startup Founder From Corporate

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While spending years in a big company as an employee and an executive, I heard many people talking about jumping the corporate ship, dreaming of being an entrepreneur, and totally in charge of their own destiny. I’m not saying success is rare, but the list of famous entrepreneurs who started their career in a big company is small.

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Business Complexity Goes Up Dramatically As You Scale

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Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. The specialists to support these may speak different technical as well as communication languages, and be physically dispersed around the world.