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6 Keys To Managing Funding From People Close To You

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. 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

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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Founders Finding Funding From Friends May Be Fools

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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The Pros and Cons of Filing Business Bankruptcy

The Startup Magazine

When the court and Chapter 7 Trustee find from the information filed that the business cannot continue to operate and meet its financial obligations, the business’ assets are liquidated for the benefit of its creditors. The business is then discharged of any debt in excess of the value of its assets, and the business ceases operations.

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Don’t Hurt Friends and Family Investors Who Love You

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Insist on paying market rates for commercial loans, since the IRS can instigate some nasty consequences on “gifts.”

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How To Take Money From Friends And Still Be Friends

Startup Professionals Musings

With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.