Startup Professionals Musings

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.”

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.”

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors may not be called co-founders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. Amount of venture funding provided. The challenge is for real co-founders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions.

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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors may not be called cofounders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. Amount of venture funding provided. The challenge is for real cofounders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions.

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8 New Venture Smarts That You Can’t Afford To Ignore

Startup Professionals Musings

Often, the number one question that entrepreneurs fail to address is: “How much money do you need, and what valuation do you place on your company?” Don’t waste time talking to VCs for requests less than $1M, or very early stage, and don’t expect professional investors to jump in if you have no “skin in the game.”

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Entrepreneurs Court New Super-Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Every early-stage startup should explore this new funding alternative. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups.

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5 Venture Periods Call For Unique Funding Strategies

Startup Professionals Musings

You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. Congratulations!