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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. Intellectual Property. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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How To Allocate Friends & Family Startup Capital

Business Plan Blog

For example, if you are a tech expert launching a mobile app, you will want a team member, service provider, or advisor fulfilling the following roles CEO, CFO, sales, and marketing. Be sure to budget a small amount ($2,500 – $5,000) of your FFF capital to ensure that you legally setup your firm. Intellectual property.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. Translation?