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		<title>When can I expect to be taken seriously?</title>
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good topic ]]></title>
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good topic ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fair point.]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Fair point.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[To go along with that, VC also h]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[To go along with that, VC also has significant downsides.&nbsp; Angel investment, a family &amp; friends round, or bootstrapping the initial start-up phase (at least until functional prototype, proof of concept, or ideally initial customers) would be ideal[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[One final point about&nbsp;you`r]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[One final point about&nbsp;you`re statement that it`s going to require VC money in short order.
Securing true VC money for a very early stage enterprise is a significant challenge - no matter what age you are.
Robert Johnson]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thanks very much for all of the ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thanks very much for all of the replies. You have all basically affirmed by current belief, but I thought that maybe I was just being naiive. If I go into this it`s going to require VC money in short order so I`m really just trying to decide if my lack of [...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
All these people are right.&nb]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
All these people are right.&nbsp; I am 21 and have received angel investment on multiple occaisions and been offered VC...and no investor, customer, or partner has ever asked to see my resume...in fact I don`t even have one.A lot of it co]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[My first post on this forum...so]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[My first post on this forum...so forgive me if my signature is still showing code. Back on topic, 2 things come to mind robert kiyosaki says it best "You don`t have to be smart to run a business, you just have to know how to hire smart people" Also]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I recently read an article in Th]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article in The Wall Street Journal about an 18-year-old in Florida who makes lots of money by teaching people how to master video games.&nbsp; If I remember correctly, he`s a h]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[In the world of entrepreneurship]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[In the world of entrepreneurship - results are what gets a person taken seriously. You get results by doing the "right" things in the right order, by being consistant and persistant and by building a team.
In your situation, I would seek out a m]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[

I am 22 and I started my com]]></title>
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I am 22 and I started my company when I was 19. In&nbsp;the
past 3&nbsp;years, I have established my company as the preferred vendor for
web development for North
  Carolina]]></description>
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