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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

Among these opportunities, the chance to pitch an investor and secure funding is perhaps the greatest of all — at least in the early stages of your startup career — as it can ultimately determine the long-term fate of your company. Ultimately, these advantages helped us secure the funding we needed.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

In general, remote workers can be classified as either (i) employees, which means that they need to pay the same taxes and social security as regular in-office employees or (ii) independent contractors. Paying above the local market rate, transferring lots of small payments that lead to the same IP address, etc. Slave Labor.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Keep the valuations consistent with company progress. The bottom line is that the pedigree of your investors will have much to do with your ultimate valuation and with your enjoyment of the startup experience. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. IP Location Tools. Great for visualizing work of product development. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Pusher and Spire.io will handle all of it for you. Try Leaflet.

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The Company Milestones Angel Investors Care About

Business Plan Blog

A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation. Product Development. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation. A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Intellectual property. Market Validation.