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

The Startup Magazine

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Due diligence is often skipped or done on the fly while making direct investments because of the short time available to the investor.

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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

I’ve been fortunate enough to be on both sides of the table, as an entrepreneur and a VC, and I’ve observed that most investors look for the same things I do when deciding whether to invest in a company. As an immigrant founder, I didn’t have the industry connections that entrepreneurs often rely on to be successful.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as a business advisor I am convinced that making the jump from a startup to a the next unicorn takes a different mindset, and actions most entrepreneurs are reluctant to face. In my experience, less than half of founding entrepreneurs even aspire to stay and scale their company. Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

To explain the difference, let’s take me as an example: I’m a software entrepreneur, and, in recent years, a member of an angel investment group. I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. They want to know about the technology, not know the technology.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Whether they were critical to product development, marketing, or a successful exit, each of these individuals can have a significant impact on the amount of money the business is worth. Identifying key employees.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. So far it sounded like a fair deal, considering we didn’t yet have a product developed – only a pitch deck, a business plan, a fleshed-out idea, and some user interface (UI) designs of what we thought our online product would look like.