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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

Was it just to have an exit strategy sale? Today, complex large structures involve a team of architects, engineers and others who work together in constant communication. Entrepreneurs need more. A financial professional suitable for an entrepreneur should ask such questions as: What was your objective in setting up the company?

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. But there was one problem: my business plan had no exit strategy. They all asked exit strategy questions and my answer, naively, was that we would grow revenue and share profits! A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D.