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

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But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. We will work on that with her.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. Open Sesame! (A percent.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing all their money, an estimated 30% to 40% of high potential U.S. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged.

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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.

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

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At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. The good news, again, is that this business is generating revenues. Math-Quest.

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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

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The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Add to that the impact of their upcoming IPO - lots of angel investors and spin-off entrepreneurs are in the making. The company has been generating revenues for the past three years and is profitable.