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6 Easy Ways to Find an Investor for Your #startup
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Money is the bloodline of every business entity.Image credits: Photo by Chris Knight on UnsplashLack of funding can result in the failure of your business. In fact, according to a recent survey (conducted by startups economy) revealed that approximately 94% of new companies fail during the first year of operation. If you want to generate revenue of your business, then you need to fuel up with by capital.How to finance your startup2018 was the year supergiant VC deals became a nearly everyday occurrence. Thinking about ‘supergiant VC?’Well, these aren’t the absolute biggest, brightest things in the universe, though they loom larger than just about everything else.Therefore, their equity funding rounds of $100 million bending the curve of the venture market. Nevertheless, there are some (...)

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The Numbers Game: How an MIT PhD Pivoted His Way Into a $2 Million Seed Round
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Jameson Toole’s investors for his first company, Wherehouse Inc., must have been surprised to see him again only three months later with a pitch for an entirely new venture, Fritz.But Jameson’s quick pivot didn’t stop him from quickly raising $2 million for Fritz. In fact, Jameson thinks his experience with Wherehouse, and the small but dedicated team he built there, helped him raise money for his new startup.On an episode of the “How I Raised It” podcast, I asked Jameson to share a few insights into what led him to pivot and how he was able to secure funding for two consecutive companies without getting his wires crossed.So what is Fritz, and why did you start this company?Fritz helps developers put machine learning or artificial intelligence models into their mobile apps. We’re seeing all of (...)

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What to Look for When #investing in Startups
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If you want a safe bet with little risk, investing your money is easy. Just buy Treasury bonds. They carry practically no risk and are guaranteed by the full faith of the United States Government. However, in exchange for that safety, Treasury bonds return a small percentage of the investment that varies based on the Federal Reserve policy.However, to have much higher returns, sometimes a multiple of the money you invested in the first place, there’s only one possible way to achieve those returns. That path is investing in more speculative vehicles, such as privately-held companies, also known as private equity.The problem is this: unless you have a disciplined portfolio strategy, your one or two private equity bets may not work. The companies you invested in may fail. Statistically, (...)

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Why you shouldn’t raise a ‘friends and family’ round
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The centre of the universeModern #startup culture has painted a cliched image of the founder’s journey. It often starts with young friends who have some mix-and-match of these classic tropes:Dropping out of college.Taking crazy risks with their personal finances.Working in some wholly inappropriate location (and sleeping there if you’re really hardcore).Being rejected by early investors and instead scraping together cash from uncles, cousins, parents…anyone you can.We idolize these stories because everyone loves an underdog. The eventual success is all the sweeter for the tough times, the doubts and all the people who said you couldn’t. But there’s a problem with these stories; the majority are cherry-picked PR bullshit. The truth is that most successful founders come from positions of (...)

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Securing #startup Funding Top Tips from Eqvista CEO — Tomas Milar
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Securing Startup Funding Top Tips from Eqvista CEO — Tomas MilarNow that you have a billion-dollar idea that you have used to open a company with, what is the next thing you need? Well, the next step is to create a website, build/rent office space, hire a professional team, and obviously have some free-flowing cash that would help you pay the rent and the salaries easily at least. All this just means that you require capital. Regardless of the kind of business, every startup needs some amount of cash to actually get off the ground during the initial days.Image credits: Photo by Emilio Garcia on UnsplashToday I’m introducing you, Mr. Tomas Milar a serial entrepreneur and investor. As a founder of about 8 to 10 companies, Tomas is often asked by many entrepreneurs for tips on how to finding (...)

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Anderson Tan — The Renaissance Man
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Anderson Tan: The Renaissance ManAnderson Tan — The Renaissance Man first appeared on Blockleaders, written by Jillian Godsil on 4th October 2018Anderson Tan is positively voracious in his search for knowledge and learning. In 2014, while between jobs (and by jobs I mean having sold two companies and being involved in real estate before casting about for a new adventure), he studied continuously computer science, physics, entrepreneurship, philosophy, technology, coding, creative problem solving, space, music among other things through online learning platforms operated by Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Babson, Berkeley, Northwestern, IBM, Linux, University of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo and many more.He is a graduate of the (...)

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Real Angel Investors Make #founders Feel Like Gods
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This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business ReviewA friend called me heartbroken, crying. She had spent months looking for investors to fund her fledgling #startup and now she had a big problem. Someone was ready to give her the money.Trouble was, the cash came with a catch. The only investor willing to pony-up the money was someone she didn’t like. She also got the feeling he did not like her much either, and yet, he wanted to invest. “If he was involved, I have the feeling I would quit my company down the road,” she told me over the phone.Time was running out, she needed the funds and with no other investor ready to commit, she feared she’d have to take the money from someone she couldn’t stand. The very thought made her sick in the stomach.I felt for her and her dilemma piqued (...)

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You Don’t Need To Tell Investors Everything
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Just be good at answering their questions.Inquiring minds want to know…Well done.You just finished your eight-minute pitch. You were in the zone. You knew your stuff.Now comes the hard part.If you’re lucky, you’ll be bombarded with questions.Your pitch is simply an opportunity to inspire potential investors to ask questions by telling them a great story.Engage them in the beginning with the problem, wow them with the market potential, and impress them with the simplicity of your product and clarity of thought.And when they start grilling you afterward realize you have already won. You are already at the next conversation; you just have to have good answers to their questions.Which is often where even good pitches fail.The other day I was at a pitch event acting as a judge and I asked a (...)

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It’s in the business, stop telling me about your tech
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TumisuOne recent screening session for the Westchester Angels someone presented to us a retail wind turbine concept that I think may warrant investment.But there was no way to tell.So, he didn’t get funded.Here is why and how to avoid his fate:As good as the core of his idea may still be (I don’t know by the way), there is no way his company is going to raise any money.He could not explain to us the problem he solved or why anybody would be interested. So, none of us could figure out how we would ever make any money. So none of us were interested in investing.His pitch was a technical explanation of the intricacies of his product design. He spent a full quarter of his time (2 out of 8 minutes) on ball bearings!As a rule of thumb any time your initial pitch to early stage investors includes (...)

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