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It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.

This is going to be BIG.

Talk to ten founders and ten different VCs and you’ll get roughly about 600 different suggestions as to how you should go about your fundraising strategy. For example, I’m more than happy to fund something that is pre-product except if you’re in a notoriously difficult to sell into industry, like small businesses, government, or education.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. What about strategy?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. With a CEO that likable, smart, educated and accomplished it made board members squirm that I was willing to call bullshit. Analysis Paralysis. The CEO had never met with any of them.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It was a brute-force strategy, devoid of any fairy-tale twists, but it was effective. Registered with both FINRA and SEC, Equifund is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and educating investors. He is committed to fostering an informed, engaged investment community, aligning business growth with investor education.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

TechCrunch

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Consultant: Appetiser Apps. Consultant: Aloa. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Consultant: Cultum. Consultant: ManagedKube.

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The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs

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Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again. . - .&# It was appropriate for my job and stage of career. Often I had a very limited time.