The Only Thing That Counts for a Startup CEO, and Why Pivoting is the Worst

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Inside Angel Funding: The 4 Things that Matter

Simon Thorpe from U.K.-based Delta2020 uses a basic model when vetting potential investments and it boils down to four things: the right team, the right technology, intellectual property that is defensible, and a very big market. 

The Simplest, Yet Most Powerful Trait: Trust

Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He's a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. At Alluxio, Mih was brought in as CEO to take an opensource project that came out of U. ...  Show more

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