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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

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Your first year or two in business is where your dreams merge with reality and take a new form to guide your future efforts. Many entrepreneurs end up taking their company in a different direction after some time spent testing your initial business model.

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

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I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

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. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing.

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– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.