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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

As Steven Covey said, you'll want to "begin with the end in mind" and not make arrangements with your angel and/or early investors that will complicate later stages of funding. Your first year or two in business is where your dreams merge with reality and take a new form to guide your future efforts. Series C, D, etc.

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel?

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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. Is $120M enough capital to reach these exit goals? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. at 1:41 PM.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0

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Startup Tools

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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.