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Honest Tea TeaEO Seth Goldman: Dos and Don’ts of Raising Money From Angels

Campus Entrepreneurship

Beyond being gracious with their time, Seth and Barry have posted their original business plan on their website for years and for years I have been assigning it for reading and discussion in my class. From the Inc piece, The Dos and Dont’s of Raising Money From Angels. First round of angel financing ($500,000).

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Startup Tools

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Reply You don’t need a business plan yet: 7 ideas for Customer Development « Information Maven: Greg Meyer , on May 22, 2011 at 7:37 am said: [.] further along in the information you’ll need to build your business plan. Steve Blank lists some great tools for startups that will help you in this [.]

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Bras Meet Software at Babson

Campus Entrepreneurship

The startup worked out of office space in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood before moving to MassChallenge for the accelerator and business plan competition phase this summer. The company is about to close a $500,000 – $700,000 round of angel financing.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. With this funding, the company often perfects its business plan and starts building its management team in order to position itself for its next round of funding.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.