YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? Angel and other seed fund investors fund prototypes. Most VCs don’t invest pre-revenue. Set out goals and metrics for your business. Report your progress against those metrics every month.

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United Kingdom Entrepreneur Oklahoma Ohio 100

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. Tell your angel investors a story about need. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web?

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g.,

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. Less than 1% of all startups raise from Angels and VCs. That’s a metric! We side-hustled.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54