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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Entrepreneurs need to find a way to get traction (sales) without funding. If entrepreneurs are only pitching to angel groups, they’re only pitching to 6% of the active angels, and 0.4% Wait, you didn’t want to be a sales person? I’m not your average angel.

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Life Audit: 4 Ways To Reprogram Your Life

YoungUpstarts

by David Osborn , an entrepreneur, public speaker, and author. It’s a balance sheet where you live in the present and ask yourself where you want to go from here. You don’t need an accounting degree to understand your balance sheet and build wealth. Entrepreneurs are accountable to employees.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? Two-f **g-billion!

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process. It doesn’t.

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What’s the minimum information to give your investors?

Berkonomics

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. Shareholders may vote on other issues during the year by written consent, including acquisitions, stock issuance, changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws, and more.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Selling My First Company

Feld Thoughts

I thought it was a great description and encourage every entrepreneur who has never been through the sale of a company to read it. We always had very clean financials because we took it seriously so he quickly sized up our income statement and balance sheet. Entrepreneurship feld technologies m&a sale'

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Flippers vs Keepers–At times earnings don’t matter

Berkonomics

He has written numerous books and articles for entrepreneurs and investors, and was the publisher and editor-in-chief of Venture Magazine. Mr. Lipped addresses the issue of exits, and whether entrepreneurs should take the long view or cash out quickly when the opportunity arises. By Arthur Lipper.