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6 Keys To Managing Funding From People Close To You

Startup Professionals Musings

That means writing down and signing the terms of the agreement, after making sure everyone understands them. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Everyone wants to keep up and even have a say in your activities, and that can be a lot of conversations to manage. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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Founders Finding Funding From Friends May Be Fools

Startup Professionals Musings

That means writing down and signing the terms of the agreement, after making sure everyone understands them. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Everyone wants to keep up and even have a say in your activities, and that can be a lot of conversations to manage. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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The Good The Bad And The Ugly Of Funding From Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

That means writing down and signing the terms of the agreement, after making sure everyone understands them. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Everyone wants to keep up and even have a say in your activities, and that can be a lot of conversations to manage. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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How To Take Money From Friends And Still Be Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

That means writing down and signing the terms of the agreement, after making sure everyone understands them. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Everyone wants to keep up and even have a say in your activities, and that can be a lot of conversations to manage. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing.

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