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How To Convince Investors That Your Business Model Will Work?
By Martin at April 22, 2015 | 12:11 pm | 0 Comment
How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business. Proof of more...
How To Convince Investors About Long Term Competitive Advantage Of Startup
By Martin at August 16, 2014 | 11:57 am | 0 Comment
In their passion and excitement about a new product or service, entrepreneurs tend to continually narrow the scope of potential competitors, and often claim to have no direct competitors. This raises a big red flag with potential investors, who conclude that no competitors means no market, or you haven’t looked, and the new startup is likely not investable. They are more...
How Startups Should Approach Investors
By Martin at June 26, 2014 | 11:11 am | 0 Comment
Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about yoursustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. How an entrepreneur answers this question speaks volumes about their knowledge of business realities, customers, confidence, and their ability to handle investor more...
How To Define Traction Metrics For Your Startup
By Martin at February 27, 2013 | 8:27 am | 0 Comment
Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” What does traction really mean to investors, and how much is enough? Let me try to clarify the rules, and what it takes to win at this game. First of all, a definition. Traction is more...
Why Every Startups Need Traction First Before Approaching Investors
By Martin at September 1, 2012 | 9:02 am | 0 Comment
Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have been working 20 hours a day, and spent your last dollar, but have no results to show, investors will be sympathetic, but will probably tell you that your dream doesn’t have wheels. Traction means forward progress. I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their more...
Key Points For Startups To Consider Before Approaching To Investors
By Martin at April 4, 2012 | 8:23 am | 0 Comment
If your startup desperately needs an investor, you may not care if the investor is a so-called “angel” investor, or a venture capitalist (VC). The money is the same color in either case. But I have found that making the right choice at the right time can have a major impact on your long-term valuation, and the decision process is complex. The basics are simple. more...
Key Characters Required For Entrepreneurs To Attract Investors
By Martin at March 19, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
Key Characters Required For Entrepreneurs To Attract Investors I’ve noticed that some entrepreneurs seem to have no trouble attracting investors, while others with a great business plan struggle with it. The reality is that angel investors are humans, and personal traits often make or break the relationship, even before the investment is considered. On the top more...
Make A Good Business Plan For Your Start Up Ideas Via Plancruncher
By Vineet at October 11, 2011 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
Most of the new wannabe entrepreneurs lack good business plan making skills that's why they fail to get investors for their startup projects. So,what's the solution? Well,how about using some sites that could help you to make a good business plan? How? Through Plancruncher. What it does? Plan Cruncher creates a standard one-page summary of a more...
Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation?
By Guest Post at August 3, 2011 | 10:59 am | 0 Comment
Why Investors & Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation This week, I’ve had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. On July 1, 2006, more...
Tips for your startup funding
By Martin at June 18, 2011 | 10:49 am | 0 Comment
Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have been working 20 hours a day, and spent your last dollar, but have no results to show, investors will be sympathetic, but will probably tell you that your dream doesn’t have wheels. Traction means forward progress. I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their more...
Tips for “funding pitch” to angel investors
By Martin at April 30, 2011 | 10:26 am | 0 Comment
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. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor more...
Two-year US visa to any entrepreneur that can get a start up idea
By Vineet at March 15, 2011 | 6:13 pm | 0 Comment
Do you have any starup idea and did you get any investors yet? Yes? Then fly to US. How? US senenators are going to pass a bill for entrepreneurs.This bill would called as Startup Visa act. If it get passed then any entrepreneur with an idea can move to US easily. What he/she have to do is just find one investor who backs them. TOI reported: Two-year US more...
Why funding requests for viable businesses are rejected by investors?
By Martin at March 12, 2011 | 2:03 pm | 0 Comment
New entrepreneurs often seem to confuse viability with fundability. Certainly a non-viable business should be not fundable, but many viable businesses are also not fundable. Thus when an investor declines your funding request, you need to curb your anger and understand the real reason for this outcome. In my experience, here are the most common issues that cause more...
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone
By Martin at February 8, 2011 | 10:46 am | 0 Comment
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network more...
Lending club is bringing together investors and creditworthy borrowers got VC funding
By Vineet at April 14, 2010 | 10:09 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Lending club is an online financial community bringing together investors and creditworthy borrowers so that both can benefit financially. The main purpose of this site is to removing the bank from the lending process, they make it possible for investors to earn a higher return and for borrowers to get a lower rate on personal loans. How more...
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Teamup2gether–Connect Smart Entrepreneurs With Savvy Investors
By Vineet at February 9, 2010 | 9:44 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Teamup2gether is the new website that will help smart entrepreneurs in touch with savvy investors. It provides a simple to use service to help start ups and growing businesses to find seed funds, angel investors or second stage capital for expansion. Teamup2gether is offering a Free Business Plan Evaluation Service to Entrepreneurs as a way of more...
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