Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Most healthy businesses need business financing at some point. Startups have to deal with starting costs and ongoing businesses have to finance growth and working capital. Financing options depend on what kind of business you have. So you should tailor your funding search and your approach. Small business financing myths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t invest in non-profits. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t invest in non-profits. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. How should I finance my new venture? It’s a deceptively simple question:  what is the optimal way to finance a new startup? Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

You can also opt to receive a term loan, a type of trade finance , which is a long-term debt that includes overdraft facilities and commercial mortgages. This method of financing your business is deemed to be a lot more sustainable since it’s backed with collateral. Angel Investors. Bootstrapping.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

But every startup’s journey towards getting to the Series A point is certainly unique in its own way, and when I reflect on what it took to reach this goal, there were four key strategies, related to raising funds and seeking out investors, that really set us up for successes and helped us get there not just faster, but smarter.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Search for Cheaper Options. If you haven’t been able to save up for your capital, consider bootstrapping your business. You should also consider getting investments, either through crowdsourcing platforms or via the traditional way of pitching to an angel investor.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   Growth financing, for example.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.   Growth financing, for example.      Search.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

Once you learn about all of your financing options, you could choose the one best suited to help your business grow. No business owner should enter into an agreement with an investor before learning about the terms they offer and their reputation. Some business owners decide to self-finance their startup rather than seek out investors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

Anything that demonstrates to angel investors that you are viable. Your business finances may show a lack of stability and not enough traction to grow long-term. You may need to make a pivot to attract any investors. Investors generally have preferences related to where they invest. Consider your business idea.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) Bootstrapping 101. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. Tell your angel investors a story about need.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. Bootstrapping 101. Thursday, January 17, 2008.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. How should I finance my new venture?  After a half hour of web searching I found Khosla Ventures investing in essentially the same thing - to the tune of $10MM or so.   Search.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.   First , dividends.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her. This is her core market.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee » December 30, 2009. Understand finance. Understand finance. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Steve Belkin , owner of the Atlanta Hawks, couldn't get his first deal financed and wound up cobbling together a friends and family round to start his travel company in the 70s. Angels and Advisors.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment. Are they doing well?

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « How should I finance my new venture?   If you've been through a plan review with someone like a potential investor, think for a moment about the questions you get asked.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 21, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Do we as investors owe an entrepreneur not only our courtesy and respect but also our active participation in the mutual discovery process about assumptions, markets, and so forth? Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. That does not apply to every operational issue - but it sure applies to strategy and finance. Posted at 06:34 AM in Angels and Advisors | Permalink. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. He was also a founding member of ITWatchdogs, another bootstrapped startup which became profitable and was sold, and is a mentor at Capital Factory. This story originally appeared on his blog.) This is not a bad thing.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Only talking to real-life people will help you figure out whether you’ve got a good product, or just a solution in search of a problem, or a product in search of a market. Step 5: Get financed. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job.

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Tim Keane

MAY 9, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The entrepreneur has the opportunity to master the intricacies of his business process; his customers minute but important expectations; venture financing; people management. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Investing in Groups - best practices of Angels » October 30, 2007. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market!

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. How to assure yourself that no professional investor will ever want to invest in your venture: » June 22, 2006. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The search for a world series ticket brought up some more thoughts about entrepreneurial finance. Bootstrapping 101. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Reducing risk for the next round of financing yields a higher investment value. Reducing risk for the next round of financing yields a higher investment value. Angels and Advisors.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Where a CIO may, for example, manage in-house technology such as an IT department, a CTOs role is typically more outward-facing, according to Tom Berray , a managing partner at Cabot Consultants , an executive search firm based in Virginia. "As 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. That said, there are nuances.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. It was bootstrapped.   Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus. .

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « "What Makes an Attractive Angel Investment" | Main. | Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. What’s your attitude about “next round” financing?

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