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Starting Your Business With A Sound Business Plan

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to acquiring finances for your startup, a proper business plan always comes handy. A business plan can be considered as the correct road map to your business which can outline the organizational goals and also gives out a detailed approach on how you can plan to achieve those goals.

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8 Funding Proposal Red Flags Every Startup Can Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Due diligence also normally involves onsite visits and employee discussions, so the entire team needs to be fully aware of expectations. Certainly there are many other red flags that will discourage investors, but every entrepreneur will find that it pays big dividends to be proactive on the key items outlined here.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

.   You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. Let’s start at the end.

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The Difference between Debt Financing and Equity Financing: Which Is Right For You?

YoungUpstarts

Banks offer commercial loans for businesses but they can be difficult to get for startups. They are for established businesses. You have to have a viable business plan with a good credit score and collateral to qualify. You may choose to sell part of your company to your employees via a stock ownership plan.

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Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

Both Sides of the Table

It is a piece of actionable advice that if you put into practice starting next week will start paying dividends in the near future. Whatever amount you’re getting out and talking with prospects, customers, employees, recruits, competitors, press, investors, potential investors … it’s never enough. 50 coffee meetings.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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I Quit My Job And Lived To Tell

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

She has since built up a client base and worked hard to establish an online brand that has paid dividends. In this new column Nacie is going to reveal what she has learned and how she established herself transitioning from employee to online entrepreneur. How much of that was basic living expenses (rent, food, utilities, etc)?

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