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Could You Have Created a “Dirty Cap Table”?

Mar 29, 2019 By Dave Berkus

Oh, I know. When you started the business, you took investments from friends and family in small amounts just to get you started. Of course, that worked at the time. But… Enter the need for larger investments When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked […]

Filed Under: Finance, Working with Investors Tagged With: Family, Friends, Investors, Legal Issues

Going into Business with Your Best Friend: A Good Idea or Potential Problem?

May 18, 2018 By YEC

My best friend and I would lock ourselves in my tiny, yellow room in Brooklyn, sitting on my bed with a hundred pieces of paper around us, quietly and carefully plotting how we would launch our business. This was an exercise we had done several times during the course of our 15-year friendship, but this […]

Filed Under: Making Your Business Official Tagged With: Friends, Getting Started, Partnerships

8 Smart Tips to Soliciting Friends and Family Funding

May 4, 2018 By Marty Zwilling

It’s great to start with a big dream as you contemplate a new business, but finding the money you need takes more than dreaming. As an advisor to young entrepreneurs, I find that many are a bit naïve about how the investment process really works. For example, I just read an otherwise impressive business plan […]

Filed Under: Funding a Startup Tagged With: Family, Friends, Funding, Startup

The Right Way to Get Funding from Family and Friends

Oct 27, 2016 By Marty Zwilling

Most entrepreneurs I know are so passionate about their new idea that they are surprised when family and friends don’t line up to invest in their new venture. Yet they tend to ignore this problem, and move on quickly to professional investors. They don’t realize that most Angel investors and venture capitalists will also decline […]

Filed Under: Funding a Startup Tagged With: Family, Friends, Funding

The Pros and Cons of Starting a Business with Friends

Sep 23, 2016 By YEC

I first met Jonathan Wasserstrum, one of my best friends and now a co-founder of TheSquareFoot and our company’s CEO, nearly two decades ago. We became friends almost immediately after meeting in high school, and we’ve been buddies ever since. A few years later, when I went to college at UT, I met Justin Lee, […]

Filed Under: Personal Readiness Tagged With: Friends, Getting Started, Startups

Entrepreneurs Need More Relationships and Fewer Friends

Mar 21, 2016 By Marty Zwilling

Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. It’s now common to have hundreds or thousands of […]

Filed Under: Relationships Tagged With: Friends, Networking, Relationships

Should You Go Into Business with Your Friends?

Nov 23, 2015 By Jania Bailey

Either you’ve thought about it or you know someone who has: going into business with a good friend seems like a wonderful idea. Why wouldn’t it be? You already trust them, you know their habits, and you can communicate and aspire to the same goals. It does seem like the perfect mix, but there are […]

Filed Under: Making Your Business Official Tagged With: Friends, Relationships, Starting a Business

10 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Meet Cash Flow Peaks

Aug 31, 2015 By Marty Zwilling

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and […]

Filed Under: Funding a Startup Tagged With: Angel Investors, Bootstrapping, Cash Flow, Family, Friends, Seeking Funding, Startups

How Entrepreneurs Attract Friends, Family and Fools

Jul 1, 2015 By Marty Zwilling

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Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors.

Filed Under: Funding a Startup Tagged With: Angel Investors, Family, Friends, Marty Zwilling, Seeking Funding, Startups

What to Do When Your Cash Flow is Down to a Trickle

Oct 10, 2014 By SmallBizClub

Cash is the lifeblood of a business. It needs to flow smoothly to keep the business in a healthy, growing state. And yet, cash flow problems are almost the norm, particularly with small businesses.

Filed Under: Budgeting and Personal Finance Tagged With: Banking, Cash Flow, Financial Management, Friends, Investors and Lenders, Joshua Geary, Solving Problems

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