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Startups Need To Be Skeptical Of Bank Funding Offers

Startup Professionals Musings

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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Should An Entrepreneur Seek Out An Investment Bank?

Startup Professionals Musings

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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Can An Investment Bank Enhance Your Startup Future?

Startup Professionals Musings

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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6 Reasons Smart Entrepreneurs Think Twice Before IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. All strategy and operational moves become public.

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Startups Get No Help From an Investment Bank

Startup Professionals Musings

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank.

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Use Investment Banks for Exit, not Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

None really provide funds for early-stage startups. None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Nevertheless, this is when you get the startup money to kickstart your business with the bare essentials needed to begin making and fulfilling your first sales. Necessary machinery, an initial website, your first batch of inventory-things you can't function without. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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