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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

pexels A war chest is virtually always a competitive edge in all aspects that count, including employing key staff, public relations, marketing, and sales. This suggests the firm should have a list of paying customers, consistent sales cycles, a clear value proposition, and a developing revenue pipeline in the ideal situation.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. New England Investment Network.

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Why Should a Founder Meet With You?

This is going to be BIG.

Imagine this: You conduct a survey of 250 Series B and beyond CROs and VPs of Sales for B2B SaaS companies to understand everything about what drives sales success and what profiles of candidates turned out to be the most successful hires.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Angel investors are people too. Marty Zwilling.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). 4) Manage deal flow.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective VCs

VC Cafe

First and foremost, Covey rejects the advice of most business books on sales, influence or persuasion, because they promote fake behaviour, intended to manipulate the other’s behaviour. We spend too much time on quadrant III and IV: calls, interruptions, busy works, networking events. But being proactive goes beyond just speed.

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

Here’s some common ways you can provide value to startups you invest in: Leverage Your Network. This also means you are likely to have a network of other successful people around you. The longer you have been in the startup game, the larger your network is likely to be, within the tech ecosystem itself. What could be improved?