Startup Professionals Musings

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

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. According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s even better to let the attorney do the negotiating, since many innocent-sounding protective and governance provisions can have long-term negative consequences to you. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.

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10 Financing Alternatives For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

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. According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years.

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6 Realistic Tactics For Funding Charitable Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Government grants. Hopefully you can see from this list that the people and processes involved in financing a nonprofit have little in common with angel investors, or the venture capital process. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues.

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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. I continue to be amazed that some government agency reportedly still gets 100 calls per day from victims of the Nigerian unclaimed cash scam alone. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Cash transfer assistance funding.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s even better to let the attorney do the negotiating, since many innocent-sounding protective and governance provisions can have long-term negative consequences to you. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.