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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

Why start from scratch when you can get a great deal on what someone else started? But every year thousands of entrepreneurs become millionaires by buying and growing businesses without the startup headaches of venture capitalists, zero revenue, and no business processes. If you remove the owner, the business struggles and collapses.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

In short, more and more entrepreneurs are signaling their price expectations earlier in their seed fundraise process. In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: 1. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: Lower than “market.” This approach is almost never a good idea. By definition, all entrepreneurs should think that their endeavor is truly exceptional. Above market.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels

VC Cafe

I could write a whole post on the 7-D model students follow (and I probably will) but I’d like to focus on a lecture at the end of the course, by a UK-based angel investor, who provided tips for entrepreneurs to make their company attractive for an angel. Are your costs per acquisition going up or down with scale?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. With partners Barry Givens and Jewel Burks Solomon, the team plans to “fill a gap in access to capital and access to networks for Black entrepreneurs.”. “We Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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