Investment Guidance Not all ideas are candidates for investment and in fact, for all early stage founders, the first source of funding should be paying customers. But if you are in the market for funding, look for non-dilutive funding first.
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Are You Investor Ready?
Are You Investor Ready? Many founders don't prepare themselves to be investor ready, yet it's a competency they need to master.
The Importance of Startup Financials
Time and time again, I see pitches and information packets about startup investment opportunities with a glaring weakness – the lack of viable, credible and detailed financial information. I don’t get it. With innovations, technologies and company concepts into which...
What “No” Sounds Like
Talking to another seed investor recently, we both got something of a chuckle when discussing a startup that had approached each of us separately. The chuckle was all about this team’s deaf ear to what was really being said to them. The word “No” comes out in a...
Mastery and The Pitch
What makes for a successful pitch? Is it the same for pitching to investors, to potential customers, to future employees, to the local Rotary, and on and on...What makes for success in any endeavor? We’ve measured many aspects of funding success – when startups...
Chasing Capital Redux
Many thanks to those who requested the written version of last week's audio blog...here it is: Chasing Capital Redux I originally wrote this Blog months ago – and never published it. I wrote it before we knew what would happen with vaccine development; and before we...
Design Your Investor Approach
Listen to this blog post in audio format below. After spending an hour on a call today with a new seed fund it really got me thinking about the importance of startup...
