Don't get the purpose of this post but what kind of startup are we talking about? Different countries have different levels of ease for different types of startups. You can't start a successful startup in Israel if you're a Palestinian. Most of their tech startups are run by ex-IDF intelligence officers off of companies like ourcrowd.com and there is ethnic bias involved. The investors are American billionaires. Source: 12 months ago

I have a tax related question. If I purchase a pre-IPO stock in the secondary market or via crowdfunding sites like ourcrowd.com, then do I need to pay tax on any capital gains that the stock might have in subsequent funding rounds. So for example, if I purchase pre-IPO stock at $1 in Series B and in Series C, it is valuated at $2, does that become a tax event as a capital gain even though I have not sold the... Source: about 2 years ago

And they do have deep pockets. All one has to do is look at the seed funding at ourcrowd.com to find out how deep the pockets are. I don't understand how that is anti-Semitic. I wish we had deep pockets. Source: almost 3 years ago

Zero to Sold is worth a read. https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/zero-to-sold/. Source: over 2 years ago

I recommend to read the book Zero to Sold where he talk about the idea validation part, that should help you. Source: almost 3 years ago

Since then, Arvid has been sharing his learnings on his blog and with his Twitter audience that he grew from 400 to over 22.000. He wrote a book about the FeedbackPanda journey (Zero to Sold) and another one about the audience-building journey (The Embedded Entrepreneur). Source: about 3 years ago