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The Company Milestones Angel Investors Care About

Business Plan Blog

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Below are the milestones that you will need to achieve in order to attract seed investment from Angels: Business Plan.

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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

Below are the milestones that you will need to achieve in order to attract seed investors and therefore the milestones that you should invest your FFF capital. Business Plan. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.