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About Convertible Note

This post is for discussion and educational purposes only and is not intended to be as legal advice. Legal advice can only be given by legal professionals. Please get a lawyer before proceeding on Convertible Notes. Also, I’am looking forward to contact you if you have worked with lawyers on Convertible Notes, and you can recommend their services.

So, what is a Convertible Note?

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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 Entrepreneurship, Practice 12,279 Comments

Pitch yourself, not your idea

Here is an other amazing writing originally published by Chris Dixon on his personal website.

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Entrepreneurship 8,460 Comments

Demo’08 Hungary

demo08_mini“Are you a start-up, or what?” – asked me the guy who I was talking to on the coffee break of Demo’08 conference. Later that day I had to realize that this was the first place ever in our country where being a start-up was an advantage.If you were not, you had nothing to do there.  Everybody had the same problem what they couldn’t solve: venture capital firms and angel investors don’t take the risk of investing in a company in the early stage (seed investing). This was the reason why they were there. “Do you see the investors or any financer people round here? Because I don’t. They all went home after 30 minutes. That’s our main problem here”. And the guy were right, the inventors were presenting their projects, only for the audience of other inventors.  So, the conference truly represented the situation in Center Europe.

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Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Entrepreneurship 12,164 Comments