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7 Growth Choices That Can Make or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. For example, you may have a product, but not a strong distribution channel. An alliance with a distribution organization enhances the value to existing and new customers of both your solutions.

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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. These investors are going to go home and their spouse will ask ‘What did you see?’ After hearing the Mega Distribution story, people came up and said, ‘That’s exactly what happened in my business.’

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest.

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6 Reasons To Build A Working Model Of Your Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens.

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The Funding Gap

Gust

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Angel Investors. $20 Super Angels. The figure below shows the number of investors by investment size for startup ventures. US Government. 20 billion.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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6 Ways A Prototype Will Add Value To Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens.