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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Billions of dollars are being poured into companies that have yet to clear the value chasm, as entrepreneurs use early traction that isn’t necessarily financially-oriented, but shows a certain level of uptick or success, to raise capital and convince early stage investors that their horse is the one to bet on.

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

View from Seed

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Generate Real Revenue. Another approach to raise Series A is to drive meaningful revenue. These users/buyers then have a clearer LTV/CAC ratio with less focus on the top-line revenue metric.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. Generate Real Revenue. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. Pre-Seed is the New Seed. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet?

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.”

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Setting Up Your Accounting System

Feld Thoughts

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. as a C-Corp in Delaware. Build a financial model that forecasts the P&L.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. All live happily ever after.