Category: Funding
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Winning the Venture Capital Lottery?
The Salami Scam: It’s easy money, like becoming a lottery millionaire. It’s a fleeting fantasy of every armchair hacker. You’ve probably heard about it from a movie or TV show. A techie secretly installs software at a bank or big company that skims 1/100 of a penny from billions of financial transactions. Each amount…
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Great, Lousy Advice for Entrepreneurs
Browse Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or any entrepreneurship blog, and within minutes you’ll find at least 20 gems of entrepreneurial wisdom quoted from the mega-successful moguls. This wisdom is guaranteed to jumpstart your venture, and inspire you to entrepreneurial greatness. These “secrets” or “rules” for success sound so powerful that they’re immortalized in motivational posters and animated…