One of the more interesting takes on venture development recently is Vancouver’s own Bootup Labs founded by Danny Robinson and Boris Mann. Bootup has an innovative take on how to get ventures nurtured to the stage where they are either more fundable or they can continue to bootstrap with monetization underway. Build the company, prove it can make money and then fund it - the opposite of many early stage approaches. Their recipe calls for the community of investors and entrepreneurs to embrace hard-ass business model scrutiny and refinement from the start, for the celebration of failure and for the winners to pay it forward (and back).
Danny put out an open call to fundfindr and other key players in the venture capital circle recently and the ensuing dialogue makes excellent reading. Even Guy Kawasaki chips in. Danny points out that Techstars and Y Combinator are other efforts at new approaches. Of course, fundfindr and Vencorps are online platforms built to transform venture capital productivity, too. Weigh in. What do you think?
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Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am1Reply to this comment.Recently I opened a merchant account for my small business. When we were talking about preferences for the merchant services, the advisor noted adding check processing to my decision. I didn’t think that customers even carried checks anymore so at first I turned down the service. Now, upon further investigation I’ve been noticing that checks are not as obsolete as I thought and I might actually make use of the check processing services. However the predicament now is making an effort to do exploration research. every articles regarding
l=http://www.onlinecheck.com/ach_processing/check_by_phone.html]accept checks by fax that I have seen online of no use. I’m on the lookout for something to show me any reason to accept checks and credit cards? additionally I need additional information about “Check 21,” which I have seen, but I can’t get it to quite make sense to me. how long after I take the check will I have my money? will my merchant account that I have
for credit cards or will I be required to have some sort of separate account for checks only? what is the cost going to be? how many checks am I going to have to process? I know that these questions can be answered by my merchant services providers
, but my assumption is that I will get biased information that will not allow me to make an informed conclusion. Anything you can tell me is appreciated. thanks .
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