Posts Tagged ‘Investors’
8 Questions Before You Join or Invest in a Startup
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology.
Read More 8 Questions to Help Set Expectations with Investors
One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round.
Read More 3 Ways to Get on an Investor’s Radar
In a tech startup, it’s the founder’s prerogative to gain the attention of the industry’s smartest, best connected and wealthiest individuals. After all, these heavy hitters can influence a company’s direction in unimaginable ways.
Read More 10 Ways to Make Your Investor Pitch More Effective
The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes.
Read More Stay in Touch with Your Investors
Investors as a group have a common gripe—almost universal. Information flows from the company irregularly, in fact most often when the company is urgently in need of more money.
Read More Super Angels Are a Boon to Startups Needing Funding
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research.
Read More 5 Misconceptions About Business Plans
How necessary is a business plan when starting a business? Is writing a business plan just a waste of time? Is a business plan the only way I can get my idea funded?
Read More 10 Incentives for Entrepreneurs to Bootstrap Their Startup
I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company.
Read More How Do I Make a Good Pitch Deck for Investors?
Don’t confuse the two: A pitch to be read must be very different from a pitch that supports a live presentation with you talking. Different media, different styles.
Read More Startup Salaries: Why Less is More
It’s no surprise many entrepreneurs dream of becoming millionaires. After all, the startups we always hear about are the wildly successful ones. Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the top 20 richest people in the world after starting Facebook in his college dorm room, and Jeff Bezos is worth billions after starting Amazon out of his garage.
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