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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

Up and Running

Identify any technology needs you may have (and whether or not you’re equipped to meet them) such as: High-speed internet with a reliable connection. Not only is it necessary due to the coronavirus, but it could potentially give you a strategic long-term advantage against current competitors and help you avoid massive overhead.

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How to Land Funding From Angel Investors

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and the process of raising angel investment for high-tech or high-growth startups. To map the main priorities, milestones, financial prospects, strategy, and tactics. Eventually, to communicate with your investors—normally this happens during due diligence after your summaries and pitches have investors interested in learning more.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Provide the background on the company, including date of formation, office location, legal structure, and stage of development. Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. Be prepared for due diligence. Provide a clear exit strategy.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

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Write your business plan and develop your business model with this in mind so you can avoid these issues. . The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy. A number of cannabis tech companies have also begun to take advantage of the opportunity in the marketplace. Technology. Financial plan.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

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You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.