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Almost every introduction to a venture capitalist is done through email, and most introductory emails are poorly crafted. The two most common mistakes are: (1) overwhelming a potential investor with too much irrelevant information or (2) avoiding any valuable company information and focusing on the pleasantries.

Companies would be much better served by including a standardized and brief paragraph that described the business in a way that a potential investor can digest quickly. Read on...

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Just saw a link to the document about a middleman sues a company for not paying all the fees for help in getting funded. I will leave to other parties make a conclusions about ethics of this. However the important part was disclosing the details of the agreement that company had signed with Warren Lieberfarb.
Young companies, especially a first time entrepreneur should be careful with paying such a fee in first place. But even if there is no choice to avoid, in any circumstances such a fees can be infinite

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