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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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Get Investors Onboard With Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report. Investors want to see in-depth financial reports that reinforce the startup has an organized business model with potential for revenue growth. That downward trend includes the most recent quarter from 2017.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Reasons for funding. ? These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Government programs. Seed stage.

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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

Sally suggests considering a full-time Sales Leader when a startup has two or more AEs and SDRs and is on the verge of hitting a $1 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). However, for early-stage startups with limited resources, a fractional CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) can be a cost-effective option.

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8 Entrepreneur Mistakes That Turn Off Real Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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8 Funding Proposal Red Flags Every Startup Can Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model

Steve Blank

In contrast, in a startup following the Customer Development process, this is when the founders realize that something is wrong with the business model (because revenue is not scaling.) At the seed stage, microcap funds/ superangels understand that companies are still searching for a business model – they get Pivots.