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The Company Milestones Angel Investors Care About

Business Plan Blog

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Below are the milestones that you will need to achieve in order to attract seed investment from Angels: Business Plan.

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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. In your pitch to FFF investors you told them that there was a need for your product in the market.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. Note: I’m not talking about equity.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.