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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction means that you have achieved one or more significant milestones, which will give you credibility with investors. Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. Only real results count.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction means that you have achieved one or more significant milestones, which will give you credibility with investors. Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. Only real results count.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction means that you have achieved one or more significant milestones, which will give you credibility with investors. Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. Only real results count.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction means that you have achieved one or more significant milestones, which will give you credibility with investors. Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. Only real results count.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. It's a contract for life. We have contracts for life.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. Because they are open source.

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