Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs. Angels need to see a proven business model, with a working prototype and preferably a real customer or two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Insist on being engaged at the transaction level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Insist on being engaged at the transaction level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Insist on being engaged at the transaction level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

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. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Do it yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Insist on being engaged at the transaction level.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 96

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs. Angels need to see a proven business model, with a working prototype and preferably a real customer or two.

Angel 106

Angel Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors.

Funding 59

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

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. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Do it yourself.

Tips 96

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. ALL of your employees must sell, network and spend the company’s money as if it were their own. the lobby, customer training rooms, etc.). Professional Negotiator.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. “Don’t enter the process blind,” says Jamie Rhodes, an investor in Austin with Central Texas Angel Network , which invested $5.5 By Monica Mehta. The group invested $8.7 Tell a story.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. L90 (Startup 3.0) , my third company, was the "premium advertising network". As a result, we ended up doing a lot of one-off custom work for clients and never really gained traction in any particular area. Pick something, stick to it and be best.

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