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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

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Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. I believe Jeff Clavier and many other seed investors are in agreement with me on this issue.) But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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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. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well. Photo by emsago.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

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Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. The good news, again, is that this business is generating revenues.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

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I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

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Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. At this point, Greg is in the process of bringing in two additional investors, and the primary topics of our discussion were valuation and ROI issues around the new investors.

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4 Startup Funding Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Up and Running

Investors in particular want to fund only scalable or ready to scale businesses. Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. All of these factors contribute to a scalable business model, which in turn, helps attract investors. Angel investors.

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