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Startup funding book free version

June 27, 2017

There are often stories in the media about entrepreneurs and startups that went on to become very successful after having been turned down by banks and investors. Those stories and the stories entrepreneurs tell me about banks and investors all point to the same things: banks behave like banks and investors behave like investors. Most entrepreneurs don’t realise this and seek funding in the wrong places and at the wrong time, mainly because they don’t understand how investors and banks think.

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