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6 Strategies To Find An Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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6 Tips On Where And When To Look For Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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8 Ways To Get Off The Ground With Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Remember that angel investors are buying equity in your business, so they are not impressed with a customer presentation. Startups in stealth mode can’t get feedback from real customers and can’t be perceived as experts in their industry. Have a full business plan and financial model to close the deal.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. This is where they find out if your team is all behind you, your customers are truly excited, your product is ready to ship, and there aren’t any skeletons in the closet.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. This is where they find out if your team is all behind you, your customers are truly excited, your product is ready to ship, and there aren’t any ghosts in the closet.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

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All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health. For small teams, every team member will likely be interviewed. The kiss of death is for investors to find unanticipated competition you neglected to mention.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm. What are you working on now? For me, it's a matter of degree.