About the Authors

Image Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional. At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he assisted with $50 million worth of investments in mobile, digital media, and enterprise software startups. He has reviewed well over 1,000 start-up companies and has served as a board member and CEO advisor for more than a dozen of them.

Tarang is the developer of a venture model, the Start-up Analysis Model (SAM), which assesses the success potential of start-ups. He is currently a technology innovation executive and mobile payment/commerce expert for one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, where he has built ...

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