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Early-stage investment is important but no substitute for business acumen, networking

May 11, 2017 /

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Entrepreneurs around the world will tell you the safest way across the startup Valley of Death is with a canteen full of investor dollars over each shoulder.

There are numbers to back that up. A Gompers and Lerner study showed 90 percent of new ventures that do not attract investors fail within the first three years.

BY PARIS COLE

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