Startup Professionals Musings

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If all this checking sounds a bit paranoid and unnecessary, it may be time to take another look at some questionable investor practices and onerous term sheet requests. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet. It’s no fun for either side.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

If all this checking sounds a bit paranoid and unnecessary, it may be time to take another look at some questionable investor practices and onerous term sheet requests. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet. It’s no fun for either side.

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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Deposit required to hold your terms. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted.

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7 Investor Term Sheet Demands Startups Need Not Fear

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is a summary of the key terms to expect on the term sheet, or the contract between the founder and investor: Consideration given for the money invested. In very early startups, which have no valuation, the term sheet may specify a convertible note. Venture capital investors normally insist on this option.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

If all this checking sounds a bit paranoid and unnecessary, it may be time to take another look at some questionable investor practices and onerous term sheet requests. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet. It’s no fun for either side.

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10 Scams To Avoid While Seeking New Venture Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Deposit required to hold your terms. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted.

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6 Obligations That Come With Startup External Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Every funding term sheet is followed by a set of milestone commitments, which should not be considered optional suggestions.