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Another Tip for Entrepreneurs: On Raising Venture Capital — You Don’t Need Finders!!!

4 Sep 2008   | Money Finders

Tags: fundraising · mistakes

LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
  • http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2006/08/another_tip_for.html

Here’s another suggestion for anyone starting a venture and/or seeking venture capital. Be careful about using funding agents or “finders” to help you locate and raise venture capital. These people will often make all kinds of promises about who they know, and what they can do for you, but in fact you usually don’t need them, and what’s more it’s better for your professional development as a CEO to do this yourself. My company, Radar Networks, was approached over the years by several finders. We even tried working with a few before we knew better — but in the end we raised our capital on our own, without their help. And you can too.

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