Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. The timing of cashflow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Product verification and clinical trials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. The timing of cash flow is everything.

Burn Rate 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As an angel investor, I certainly see continuing evidence that this phenomenon hasn’t changed much in the past couple of decades. In addition, good marketing and support plans can take as long as product development. Do both in parallel to be timely. Marketing is a necessary evil to sell weak solutions."

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We developed a kick-ass investor pitch and we started pitching it to family, friends, angel investors, and even venture capitalists for feedback. We soon got interest from an angel investor, and he wanted to invest $300,000 in our startup. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3% We were on a roll.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Marketing should start before product development.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Marketing should start before product development.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Your fundability with investors now depends on traction and perceived execution capability.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

Don’t wait for that first investor, the first prototype, or that first lawsuit. Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. Many entrepreneurs don’t realize that the tax entity election doesn’t have to match the legal entity.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In many ways, good technical co-founders and angel investors are looking for the same thing. You don’t know anyone, you don’t have experience, you don’t have traction and you don’t have investors. Your Realistic Options Most people find themselves here. San Kim Definitely.

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