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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2019
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2017
Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. A related or strategically interested company may see the value of your product as complementary to theirs, and be willing to advance funding very early, which can be repaid when you develop your revenue stream later.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2018
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2013
You may have self-financed the initial startup costs and/or raised FFF capital without a business plan , but in order to attract seed investment from Angel investors you will need a comprehensive plan complete with extensive market research and a detailed financial model. Product Development. Intellectual Property.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2009
Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Liquidity – How?
Up and Running
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Angel investors are not impressed by projections of 30-40-50% or more profits on sales. Angel investors hate projections of sales based on some small percentage of a huge market, as in “if we get just one quarter of a percent of this $20-billion market.”. See Also: Intellectual Property: How Do You Protect Your Creations?
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