Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Pitch your needs to friends and family. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Whether the business topics are investing or mentoring, networking is personal as well as business. Make the initial exchange of connection info a simple process, and don’t wait for the other person to initiate a personalized follow up within a few days. Be prepared to exchange business cards and follow up.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Pitch your needs to friends and family. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2019

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Investor and strategic partner pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Investor and strategic partner pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

Here is my outline of some key activities that could convince me you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Investor and strategic partner pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc.

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Steve Reich

JULY 20, 2013

Worse yet, Angels will no longer be able to “self certify” as accredited investors–we will have to show W2′s or proof of our net worth, and most of us will never be willing to share such personal information. And did I mention that pitch events will become a form of illegal solicitation?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Virgina Lorimor There are several options for financing a start-up business that tend to follow a natural course in a business’ development: Personal Investment. With rare exception, you will need to finance personally (or with friends and family to the point of revenue and/or significant customer pre-order or commitment).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2017

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. In addition to our seminars, we issue out a qualification application for women entrepreneurs for our signature event, the Pitch Summit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Pitch your needs to friends and family. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. Embrace “no” and don’t take it personally. It wasn’t surprising?—?if

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Pitch your needs to friends and family. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2011

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

Angel 97

Angel Startup Invest .Net 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Many of the large endowments that invest in the venture industry have seen their net worth plummet. Personal networking is key. Unless you know a VC personally, the chance of getting them on the phone and pitching them, before they have had a chance to look over some kind of summary, is zero.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

“It’s a targeted way to get access to investors and acquire intelligence on the personality of the angel group, all in one pop,” Sudek says. Pitching at a screening in slow months can result in delayed response from investors or even lack of interest at lightly attended screenings. million in 2010. million in 2010.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. ” Some academic researchers and biotech firms are building safety nets into other cutting-edge therapies. You have brakes in your car so that you can go fast but can stop when you need to.” Editas’s approach to safety, she said, is a “thoughtful design.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. One thing I learned from the book is that real estate agents always sell their personal property at higher relative prices than their clients’ properties. They want to place this person.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. This will result in personal and specific descriptions of your involvement. However, be sure that any statistics you quote are primarily attributable to your personal efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Pitch your needs to friends and family. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Startup 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2010

Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.”

Angel 91

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Consider which of the following tactics best fit your personality, risk profile, financial standing and temperament. Be sure you can answer the following questions (i) Who you are, (ii) Where you are going and, (iii) How you are going to get there, as described more fully in Personal Pitch. Tactics For Joining An AdVenture.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

As discussed in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must cultivate the help of Donors during the early days of their adVenture. However, when one does find its way into my email inbox, I admittedly am more energized to help the person or organization in the future. Thus, they naturally attribute personal successes to their abilities.

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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. In a company’s latter stages, a wasted dollar directly impacts the company’s exit valuation, which is influenced by the company’s net income. Professional Negotiator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. Now remind me, why TF would a person use your product in the first place? Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. Here’s my take on the topic: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities. And that’s real cash that LPs can’t put to work in other asset classes.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Pop Quiz: Who was this person and what did they ultimately do with the cards dealt them? One or both of your parents may have the personality of an entrepreneur, but if their parents were struggling entrepreneurs who put in long¬-hours and netted meager returns, then your parents may have rejected their latent entrepreneurial tendencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well. Basic needs vary by location and personal circumstances (e.g. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. At some point, this breaks if their isn’t an exit or IPO. million. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. That's the sweet spot for what I personally am looking at. That as unhealthy.

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