crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 6, 2013
7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link].
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 17, 2013
Understand a term sheet. Hire A Players. Deliver a keynote. Build Links. Conduct customer interviews. Segment a market. Recruit and Train. Train an intern. Replace B Players. Cold call C level executives. Write a novel. Raise Money. Build an advisory board. Tell an investor they’ve lost all their money.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! What key hires do you need? Find people to help you through the raising money process. Always ask investors why they say no.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! What key hires do you need? Find people to help you through the raising money process. Always ask investors why they say no.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Dan Primack, who is now writing a great column at Fortune called Term Sheet used to do this; there are now guest writers (including me) who do this column. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2021
When determining your walk-away position, you need to understand your best alternative to agreement, and have a Plan-B (bootstrapping, competing investor, or more time). On the other hand, when negotiating a financing for your company, you should never present your term sheet first. Always wait for the investor to play his hand.
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