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Where to Invest?

For investment decision making I always tried to learn more from Google. I went through a ton of articles in the vast sphere of investment. But I was not satisfied. Sometimes I decided to invest in stock trading, sometimes in my career, sometimes in some other things. I always felt distracted, I felt inconsistent .. etc.. etc.. a feel bad experience for me. Being frustrated, I questioned myself, "Well!! these may not be working out for me. I am lacking something. But what's that?" I tried to dive deeper into the core of myself. And I found below data as output which may help you - Reason for null and void output for any effort as input: I was not clear what I want? (Requirement gathering stage omitted) As there was no requirement, there was no plan and goal too. (Project planning missed) As there was no plan, the whole effort was scattered and had gone in vain by producing only some "feel bad" output as bugs. (No development plan) And also...

What Investors Look for in a Startup

Before approaching investors, every startup founder should ask themselves what investors look for in their startup. Below information will guide you to prepare for this question with data-driven insight. Team: Most of the investors give first priority to the startup team for investment. According to them, they mostly care about the following features of the team – PASSION .. PASSION and only PASSION: How the passionate the co-founders and the teams are. Lots of Energy but Open for feedback (Humble) Endurance / Consistency Are you solving a real problem? It’s no matter what big names of the technologies you are using. They only would like to ask you,” Are you solving a real problem?”. So be ready for that. Have you made any product, project, POC or at least any prototype? Investors don’t have any intention to invest in a startup which is in a business plan stage. So make at least one product/project/sample/prototype. Please check below video to know what Rajan Anadan ...