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8 Secrets for Maximizing Startup Equity and Control

Startup Professionals Musings

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. In summary, watch your costs, trust your gut, and drive forward with all the passion in your dream. Reinvest gross profit. Marty Zwilling.

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Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense

Startup Professionals Musings

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. In summary, watch your costs, trust your gut, and drive forward with all the passion in your dream. Reinvest gross profit.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. Summary I hope I’ve been able to persuade you that data rooms are waste. and then asking to take a brochure home with you.

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Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. In summary, watch your costs, trust your gut, and drive forward with all the passion in your dream. Reinvest gross profit.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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10 Recommendations For Aspiring New Venture Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. There you can get in for as little as $20, or even less.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. There you can get in for as little as $20, or even less.

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