Angel Investor Lean Product Development Sales 
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2017
Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. A related or strategically interested company may see the value of your product as complementary to theirs, and be willing to advance funding very early, which can be repaid when you develop your revenue stream later.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2019
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2018
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. They decide to go out and raise money on a convertible note – several angel investors have signaled interest in participating in the note and they don’t feel ready to pitch VCs yet.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Most VCs and angel investors are looking to invest in individuals that have a proven track record of prior success. So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. I didn’t enjoy the benefits of wealthy parents or a trust fund.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Pragmatic and Lean. Which is why I had OEM sales as part of marketing—we had to earn our keep.). Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours.
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