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Venture Capital Demystified: A Fundraising Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Lawyers

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This is the firm that will give you a term sheet, take a leadership role in driving financing, and likely be your most active new investor. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are cofounders of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado–based venture capital fund. Keep your head up and stay optimistic throughout this process.

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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

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They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. In the eyes of entrepreneurs chasing venture capital funding, how could being self-funded ever look like anything but a handicap? If they don’t come through, who will?

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

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In order to achieve velocity and capitalize on the opportunity, you must put experience front and center, early and often in the sales and marketing cycle. True leadership advantage happens when you have unique value/viewpoint alignment that’s communicated in high velocity, engaging and experiential ways.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

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In these scenarios, most founders will have trouble tapping the institutional Venture Capital market and will have to do a bridge round or multiple bridge rounds. . Exacerbating the problem are the subjective standards by which many young companies are evaluated.

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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

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Look to the company’s leadership to clarify where they’re headed and where they plan to be in a decade; at the very least, “the founder should be able to tell you the percentage of the market that they plan to capture over a specific time period and what type of growth potential they envision.”.

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Beating The Odds To Land A Startup Opportunity

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New companies are formed daily, raising huge sums of venture capital to take on the incumbents and put your company out of business. They may know technology, or markets, or strategy, but chances are they would never have qualified for a leadership position at your company, let alone have been your boss. Pour through it.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

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With both OfficeMax and Max-Wellness, being the benevolent dictator provided the critical leadership necessary to take an idea and transform it into reality as fast as possible. At that time you have to decide, “We’re taking this fork in the road, for better or worse, and it’s on my head.”. Remember, beating the competition is never easy.

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