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Need investment capital?

Berkonomics

A personal story as an investor … [Email readers, continue here…] My very first investment as a professional angel was in a small startup where the entrepreneur’s vision fueled my imagination in the audio market niche where I had run a business in an earlier life. Trust works both ways.

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Oh, go ahead and ask for $5M for your startup.  

Berkonomics

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen executive summaries of business plans in which the entrepreneur seeks $5,000,000 to build the business. The investors want a motivated entrepreneur, and it is certainly more difficult to motivate a twenty percent owner than a sixty percent owner. Four reasons you should reconsider.

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Risk, insanity, and the 50% startup rule!

Berkonomics

After speaking with many entrepreneurs over the years, each defines success in his or her unique way. Vision, risk and capital, oh my! And few think of the risks that increase over time as initial capital is expended. Then again, with the fifty percent rule, aren’t all entrepreneurs a bit insane to start?

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What is a “Dirty Cap Table?”   

Berkonomics

Investors love to see entrepreneurs who have used their own money to ignite their businesses. But often, entrepreneurs turn to others for initial capital. Describing that capital using the phrase “friends, family and fools,” or “FFF,” has become as common as to be trite. Does issuing a PPM insulate the company?

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Interview with Noramay Cadena, MiLA Capital

socalTECH

For our interview today, we have Noramay Cadena , a Partner at MILA Capital , who spoke to us earlier this year about the venture capital investment firm and what it looks for in entrepreneurs. What is MiLA Capital? What's the best way for an entrepreneur to reach out to you?

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Do you agree with “Fail fast?”

Berkonomics

If they are not achieved within the expected time, the reasons must be analyzed by you and by your board and acted upon to avoid loss of capital beyond plan or expectation. Reduce further expenditures of remaining capital and protect the assets purchased with the original investment. Ragged edges all four sides.”

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How to increase your valuation by reducing risk       

Berkonomics

In the creation of a young company, there are five principal risks to be addressed by the entrepreneur. So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. Third: Management risk.