skip to main | skip to sidebar 24 January 2010 Startup Business Development Strategies: 7 Tips For Putting Together Stellar Deals Business development is fun. There is a natural bias against working with firms that are unproven, underfunded, and still developing and/or evolving. few tips for startups doing deals: 1. Many Thanks! MORE >>

Frankly, I wish this controversy would go away and that all angels would simply use a standard preferred (light) term sheet to define their investment.  Here is an example of a Preferred Light Term Sheet developed by Dan Rosen, chair of the Alliance of Angels. MORE >>

All things considered though, you need to dig into the terms and objectively analyze the deal.  Some corporate development?  corporate I’d put the corporate development folks in the middle and the operations group on the opposing end.  Do the terms of the investment go beyond just money (i.e., Follow your gut.  MORE >>

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Later?” MORE >>

” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. MORE >>