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What the VCIC can teach us about Finding Good Investors.
Finding an investor for your startup is hard, and as I partly covered in my last post: What Tier is your Investor (or what to look for in an investor)? It involves taking a lot of meetings and dealing with a lot of rejections while at the same time ascertaining how much value-add the investor you are [...]
Setting Appropriate Milestones in an Early-Stage Startup
When looking to plan for your company’s growth strategy or to go fundraising, it’ll serve you and your company well to break down what you need to do in terms of projected milestones. Technically speaking, I believe a milestone is a future ‘marker’ within your company’s stated growth trajectory. Therefore, milestones, in the context of startups, are [...]
How does an early-stage investor review your financial plan?
You are about to go meet an investor… you’ve read on the web and heard differing views from people on whether you need a financial plan… some say you don’t, it’s a waste of time as its all made up numbers anyway… others say, you absolutely need a financial plan… so you walk into an [...]
How does an investor evaluate a startup’s team?
A startup’s management team is its lifeblood… no amount of awesome ideas will ever overcome a fundamentally flawed management team. In the early stages of any startup, it is all about the people. But what makes up a good team? How do you know if you have a good team, if you are a good [...]
Do I need a technical founder in my team to get started?
[Update] If you have a great startup idea, or want to try and hack on problems that industry players have, think about going to http://www.seedhack.com to present it. This is a quick answer to a frequently asked question. So you’ve come up with a good idea… you feel like you can get a lot of [...]
The UK Startup Visa – Driving future economic growth
I’m extremely excited with the good work the UK government is achieving in approving the new Startup Visa program. In summary, three types of visa applicants will benefit from this new program: “Investors who invest £5 million will be allowed to settle here after 3 years, and those investing £10 million or more will be [...]
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