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8 Keys To That First Investment From People You Know

Startup Professionals Musings

You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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Tips for Investing in Startups: 4 Risks & Rewards

The Startup Magazine

Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels. Independent investors have to get used to the idea that the only people who usually manage to make very early investments in startups, providing the seed money, are the friends and family members of the founders, and of course the founders themselves.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Startup Professionals Musings

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. For university professors, grants are their lifeblood, and they know the process well.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Gust

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. For university professors, grants are their lifeblood, and they know the process well.

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8 Guidelines For Friends And Family Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?