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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Business Model.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At my previous position as a Strategist at Disney, I was tasked with leading undergraduate recruiting efforts for the Global Development and Corporate Finance teams. Hence my business, Let Your Space Bloom, LLC, came to fruition. I started my business consulting firm in 2005 when I decided to become a mom.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I look forward to the next phase of our business. Free product. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing?Whatever Sacrificing Users to (Supposed) Profit When I said at the beginning that if you make something users want,youll be fine, you may have noticed I didnt mention anything abouthaving the right business model. It is irresponsible not to think about business models.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

"What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues. Everything's better with the lean model. Two orders of magnitude. Look at Instagram, which got bought by Facebook.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. Seed Startups. Startup Threads.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.