The top ten mistakes start-ups make - including some of my own personal start-up experiences of starting a Web 2.0 company. This deck also includes resources for entrepreneurs living in the Willamette Valley (Oregon).
Introduction to Business Angel Investing'Tomi Davies
This presentation is Based on the book “Angel Investing - The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing In Startups” by David S. Rose @davidsrose CEO of Gust and Founder of New York Angels angelinvesting.com
It is for a Masterclass designed for practising and potential business angels who want to understand the basics of angel investing. It is a comprehensive guide that walks students through every step of the way to becoming a successful angel investor.
The class exposes students to fundamental strategies and specific tools required to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class, from building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals and adding value to your portfolio of companies through to helping them implement smart exit strategies.
Startup Palm Beach is an entrepreneur resource center and incubator located in West Palm Beach, Florida that opened in January 2014. It hosts events for startups, mentors, and investors to attract, empower and invest in local entrepreneurs. Since opening, companies involved have received over $250,000 in funding commitments and Startup Palm Beach has hosted over 60 educational and networking events. Its vision is to become the central hub for entrepreneurship in West Palm Beach by providing resources, mentorship, and funding connections to help startups launch, establish operations, and grow their businesses.
Crowdfunding democratizes financing and creates opportunities for entrepreneurs but also challenges. It can generate noise from many seeking funds. Investors may fear fraud and funds raised may not be productive. Significant effort is required to engage investors online while protecting ideas. To succeed, entrepreneurs should concisely summarize their business, make an engaging video to satisfy investor needs, and address key questions about problems solved, market size, competitive advantages, and execution plan. Both entrepreneurs and investors have expectations about information sharing, future financing, and potential returns that require consideration. Broad regulations are needed to allow innovation while protecting all parties.
Marian Gazdik discusses strategies for Central and Eastern European (CEE) startups and entrepreneurs to reach the next level of success. Some key points include:
- Regions and industries rise and fall, so startups should collaborate rather than compete, connect to global hubs, and develop strategic partnerships.
- CEE startups face challenges like fear of failure, lack of ambition, secrecy instead of feedback, and products not fitting major markets. Finding mentors and achieving product-market fit are important.
- StartupGrind can help by developing local ecosystems, connecting startups to investors and advisors, and hosting conferences with top entrepreneurs. Their goal is building a bridge to Silicon Valley.
This document summarizes an organization called Tri-Valley Startups that aims to build an ecosystem to support entrepreneurs and startups in their local community. It introduces the founding team and their experience. The organization offers mentors, connections, funding introductions, and services to help entrepreneurs develop and grow their businesses locally rather than having to relocate. Investors can make small seed investments in local opportunities with reasonable valuations and equity terms. Mentors gain opportunities to advise startups from ideation through growth and potentially invest.
Angel 101 - The Fundamentals of Angel Investing. Is Angel Investing right for you. This is a presentation given by Gerard Buckley to a group of Angel Investors at Maple Leaf Angels a Toronto based angel group
This document provides information about raising funds from angel investors. It discusses the Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) which connects investors with early stage companies. HBAN has invested over €5.7 million in 20 startups through angel syndicates. The document outlines various funding options and notes that seeking angel investors requires equity investment and will involve missed forecasts or lost contracts. It provides tips for approaching angels, including having a one page teaser, 10 minute presentation, full business plan and use of proceeds plan. HBAN can help companies decide if they are ready for funding, provide templates, introduce them to regional angel groups, and help syndicate investment deals.
Introduction to Business Angel Investing'Tomi Davies
This presentation is Based on the book “Angel Investing - The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing In Startups” by David S. Rose @davidsrose CEO of Gust and Founder of New York Angels angelinvesting.com
It is for a Masterclass designed for practising and potential business angels who want to understand the basics of angel investing. It is a comprehensive guide that walks students through every step of the way to becoming a successful angel investor.
The class exposes students to fundamental strategies and specific tools required to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class, from building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals and adding value to your portfolio of companies through to helping them implement smart exit strategies.
Startup Palm Beach is an entrepreneur resource center and incubator located in West Palm Beach, Florida that opened in January 2014. It hosts events for startups, mentors, and investors to attract, empower and invest in local entrepreneurs. Since opening, companies involved have received over $250,000 in funding commitments and Startup Palm Beach has hosted over 60 educational and networking events. Its vision is to become the central hub for entrepreneurship in West Palm Beach by providing resources, mentorship, and funding connections to help startups launch, establish operations, and grow their businesses.
Crowdfunding democratizes financing and creates opportunities for entrepreneurs but also challenges. It can generate noise from many seeking funds. Investors may fear fraud and funds raised may not be productive. Significant effort is required to engage investors online while protecting ideas. To succeed, entrepreneurs should concisely summarize their business, make an engaging video to satisfy investor needs, and address key questions about problems solved, market size, competitive advantages, and execution plan. Both entrepreneurs and investors have expectations about information sharing, future financing, and potential returns that require consideration. Broad regulations are needed to allow innovation while protecting all parties.
Marian Gazdik discusses strategies for Central and Eastern European (CEE) startups and entrepreneurs to reach the next level of success. Some key points include:
- Regions and industries rise and fall, so startups should collaborate rather than compete, connect to global hubs, and develop strategic partnerships.
- CEE startups face challenges like fear of failure, lack of ambition, secrecy instead of feedback, and products not fitting major markets. Finding mentors and achieving product-market fit are important.
- StartupGrind can help by developing local ecosystems, connecting startups to investors and advisors, and hosting conferences with top entrepreneurs. Their goal is building a bridge to Silicon Valley.
This document summarizes an organization called Tri-Valley Startups that aims to build an ecosystem to support entrepreneurs and startups in their local community. It introduces the founding team and their experience. The organization offers mentors, connections, funding introductions, and services to help entrepreneurs develop and grow their businesses locally rather than having to relocate. Investors can make small seed investments in local opportunities with reasonable valuations and equity terms. Mentors gain opportunities to advise startups from ideation through growth and potentially invest.
Angel 101 - The Fundamentals of Angel Investing. Is Angel Investing right for you. This is a presentation given by Gerard Buckley to a group of Angel Investors at Maple Leaf Angels a Toronto based angel group
This document provides information about raising funds from angel investors. It discusses the Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) which connects investors with early stage companies. HBAN has invested over €5.7 million in 20 startups through angel syndicates. The document outlines various funding options and notes that seeking angel investors requires equity investment and will involve missed forecasts or lost contracts. It provides tips for approaching angels, including having a one page teaser, 10 minute presentation, full business plan and use of proceeds plan. HBAN can help companies decide if they are ready for funding, provide templates, introduce them to regional angel groups, and help syndicate investment deals.
Presentation with a personal perspective on entrepreneurship with further academic insight from a Harvard Business Review article by Linda Rottenberg "Crazy is a Compliment"
What to expect in year one of your startupGeorge Bevis
The document provides an overview of strategies for a startup in its first year. It recommends conducting tests rather than growing a business to prove hypotheses cheaply. Only build a business after establishing a viable model where customer lifetime value exceeds three times the cost of customer acquisition. Outsource non-core activities and establish a mission and culture in the first year. Seek to minimize investor funding initially and prove concepts with contracting or grants instead of seeking money that could be lost. Focus marketing tests on proving at least one low-cost customer acquisition channel that can scale. Establish product, brand and operational standards while the business is still small.
This presentation talks about how incubators accelerators and co-working spaces are fueling entrepreneurship. It highlights key aspects like mentoring, team building, branding, fundraising, services and alumni connect.
[PREMONEY 2014] Bullpen Capital >> Paul Martino, "Seed Is The New A: What The...500 Startups
This document discusses the evolution of seed-stage investing and the post-seed ecosystem. It notes that seed is now seen as a process rather than an event, and raising money has become a CEO's main job. The cost of startups has decreased significantly since 2000 due to factors like open source tools and cloud computing. New financial instruments like capped convertibles helped fuel the seed stage. Now over half of seed dollars flow to "post-seed" rounds as companies seek to de-risk before an institutional Series A. Founders must constantly raise money and investors must add specific value at each stage to be successful in this evolving ecosystem.
[PREMONEY MIAMI] Endeavor >> Allen Taylor , "The Global VC: How Emerging Mar...500 Startups
The document discusses how venture capital (VC) is both a local and global game. While VC requires proximity for diligence, emerging markets have common consumers and incomplete financing ecosystems that can benefit from international actors. The author provides examples of challenges that startups face when scaling outside the US, such as differences in payments, logistics, and macroeconomics. However, emerging cities around the world offer opportunities to learn lessons that could apply elsewhere. The author encourages visiting other VC hubs to mentor entrepreneurs, co-invest, and become a limited partner to further learning.
Small businesses are a major driver of economic growth and job creation in the United States. They represent 99.7% of all employers, generate 60-80% of new jobs annually, and produce 13% more patents per employee than large businesses. Successful entrepreneurs possess traits like risk-taking, confidence, and tenacity. While entrepreneurship provides benefits like wealth, independence, and fulfillment, it also carries risks like income uncertainty and long work hours.
Summary presentation of the critically acclaimed book on venture capital and entrepreneurship by Flybridge general partner Jeff Bussgang (www.jeffbussgang.com)
Most investors ask startups to send a pitch deck over before a meeting, a lot of them pass and say no on the strength of that pitch deck.
We do things a little bit differently and we've actually made a pitch deck to sell ourselves to startups. We're Founder first and we see ourselves as privileged to be buying some equity in your company.
Boards and C level Executives: Balancing Trust and TensionSharath Martin
This document discusses the importance of boards of directors (NEDs) working effectively with corporate executives (C-levels). It notes a history of corporate failures when these groups did not collaborate well. NEDs are meant to provide outside perspective to evaluate strategies and hold management accountable, while C-levels want clear guidance from the board. The document emphasizes that both groups must understand each other's roles and work as a team for the company to thrive, as strategy must constantly adapt in today's quickly changing business environment. It highlights the example of Nokia, which was able to transform dramatically due to its ability to change and have a collaborative relationship between its board and executives.
Guy Rigby, Head of Entrepreneurial Services at Smith & Williamson, presented on building a global small business. He discussed the traits of successful entrepreneurs, developing a vision and strategy, maintaining flexibility while staying focused, financing options, professionalizing the business, building a brand identity and culture, sales and marketing strategies, partnerships and collaboration, international expansion, acquisition strategies ("buy and build"), and concluded that building a great business requires excelling at many small details.
Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular funding strategy for early stage entrepreneurs — but it’s not a guaranteed success. We’re partnering with IFundWomen, a crowdfunding platform for women-led businesses to bring you this workshop. Whether you are creating a campaign for funding or for market validation, we’ll help you create an enticing campaign that will resonate with your audience and provide your business with the capital it needs to keep growing. Our crowdfunding experts will walk you through practical ways to hone your pitch, map your network, strategically estimate your fundraising goal, market to your target audience, and design rewards that sell. We’ll also provide useful resources, playbooks, toolkits, etc that you will need to rock your crowdfunding campaign.
Angel investing is a great way to participate in the growing trend of entrepreneurship. Responsible investing is very important for the health of your portfolio and for your relationships with founders. Don't invest without understanding a few simple things. Equity investments are long term relationships. Investors must do their part to be good investment partners.
This document discusses community investment strategies for businesses. It defines community investment as a company's long-term strategic involvement in community partnerships to address social issues in a way that benefits both the community and the company. Effective community investment requires developing initiatives to meet community needs through providing resources like equipment, human skills and business networks. It should be a sustained effort done in partnership with communities to create long-term social and business value, rather than just short-term donations. The document provides examples of how businesses can identify local needs and partner with organizations to structure community investment programs that benefit both communities and company operations and goals.
How To Raise Capital: Understanding Your Funding Stack & Optimizing Your Fund...Lighter Capital
Despite some signs of a slowdown, the seed and venture markets are relatively healthy. However, raising capital remains one of the most challenging jobs that a startup CEO will ever undertake.
What's your fundraising strategy for remainder of 2017 and beyond? How do you plan to raise your next round, especially in a tighter VC market?
Join BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital, and Nathan Beckord, CEO of Foundersuite, on September 19 where they will discuss:
- Recent funding trends and the rise of alternative funding options
- How to think about your capital stack
- Tips on optimizing your capital raise
"Evolution of your Role as Founder" by Janis Zech (Fyber, Point Nine Capital)TheFamily
As an entrepreneur, you have to move fast and learn constantly. Let's face it: your role as a founder will evolve as your startup grow. So... do you have what it takes? We're glad to invite Janis Zech, Co-Founder of Fyber and now Venture Partner at Point Nine Capital, to share the different stages of his entrepreneurial journey!
Janis is an entrepreneur & investor passionate about tech startups, bright minds & bold ideas. He started Fyber, a cross-platform monetization & advertising solution for app developers back in 2009. Five years later, he sold it for €150M. He will share what happened in between: from doing everything himself to delegating bit by bit, building and managing a team, growing from €0 to €218M in revenues, fundraising and exiting.
It takes a special kind of mind to be able to juggle so many responsibilities while knowing what your priorities are at any given point in your startup's life. Here, Janis shares his own adventures and what he looks for in founders when investing in early stage startups.
This document provides advice and lessons learned from Dave McClure's experience as an angel investor and founder of 500 Startups accelerator. It outlines the key steps needed to successfully invest as an angel, including having sufficient capital, deal flow, expertise in evaluation and negotiations, support for portfolio companies, and connections for follow-on funding. McClure discusses his early investments from 2004-2008, noting most failures but a few large exits. The document also provides tips for new angel investors and what it takes to run a successful accelerator, including funding, branding, programs/services, deal flow, mentors, downstream capital, and proof points from past wins.
Presentation at Octopus Wealth event about the role of failure in business.George Bevis
This document discusses failure in startups and provides advice. It summarizes:
1) The author discusses his own experience failing with his startup SpeedSell, which raised less than £200k but returned nothing to investors.
2) Common mistakes that lead to failure include poor unit economics, insufficient customer lifetime value, lack of willingness to tackle hard problems, and not addressing potential issues proactively.
3) When failure is inevitable, the author advises being honest with investors and staff, trying to find jobs for staff, and paying creditors if possible to maintain honor and reputation despite failure.
Venture capital involves raising funds from investors to finance new and growing companies, taking equity stakes and actively working with the companies. The presentation provided an overview of the venture capital industry, including its history, typical fund structures, returns, and the roles of venture capital firms and entrepreneurs. It also gave statistics on venture capital investments in 2006 and trends over time.
How Your Startup Can Raise Venture Capital in the COVID-19 Eraideatoipo
This presentation will cover some of the key topics that you will need think about as you prepare your startup for venture capital funding.
The speaker will address the following and provide context for the COVID-19 era:
1) Should you be raising money from venture capital investors yet, or does it make sense to seek more angel/friends and family financing to allow you to better succeed when you seek venture capital funding?
2) What kinds of marketing documents will you need?
3) Do you have a compelling team, including the right advisors?
4) Who are your targets?
5) Is your pitch and presentation ready for a prime time audience?
6) Can you effectively answer the questions you will face?
7) Is your company prepared for legal due diligence?
The speaker, veteran startup and corporate attorney Greg Chin of Duane Morris LLP, has seen hundreds of startups succeed and fail.
Greg will address these issues and more!
Presentation with a personal perspective on entrepreneurship with further academic insight from a Harvard Business Review article by Linda Rottenberg "Crazy is a Compliment"
What to expect in year one of your startupGeorge Bevis
The document provides an overview of strategies for a startup in its first year. It recommends conducting tests rather than growing a business to prove hypotheses cheaply. Only build a business after establishing a viable model where customer lifetime value exceeds three times the cost of customer acquisition. Outsource non-core activities and establish a mission and culture in the first year. Seek to minimize investor funding initially and prove concepts with contracting or grants instead of seeking money that could be lost. Focus marketing tests on proving at least one low-cost customer acquisition channel that can scale. Establish product, brand and operational standards while the business is still small.
This presentation talks about how incubators accelerators and co-working spaces are fueling entrepreneurship. It highlights key aspects like mentoring, team building, branding, fundraising, services and alumni connect.
[PREMONEY 2014] Bullpen Capital >> Paul Martino, "Seed Is The New A: What The...500 Startups
This document discusses the evolution of seed-stage investing and the post-seed ecosystem. It notes that seed is now seen as a process rather than an event, and raising money has become a CEO's main job. The cost of startups has decreased significantly since 2000 due to factors like open source tools and cloud computing. New financial instruments like capped convertibles helped fuel the seed stage. Now over half of seed dollars flow to "post-seed" rounds as companies seek to de-risk before an institutional Series A. Founders must constantly raise money and investors must add specific value at each stage to be successful in this evolving ecosystem.
[PREMONEY MIAMI] Endeavor >> Allen Taylor , "The Global VC: How Emerging Mar...500 Startups
The document discusses how venture capital (VC) is both a local and global game. While VC requires proximity for diligence, emerging markets have common consumers and incomplete financing ecosystems that can benefit from international actors. The author provides examples of challenges that startups face when scaling outside the US, such as differences in payments, logistics, and macroeconomics. However, emerging cities around the world offer opportunities to learn lessons that could apply elsewhere. The author encourages visiting other VC hubs to mentor entrepreneurs, co-invest, and become a limited partner to further learning.
Small businesses are a major driver of economic growth and job creation in the United States. They represent 99.7% of all employers, generate 60-80% of new jobs annually, and produce 13% more patents per employee than large businesses. Successful entrepreneurs possess traits like risk-taking, confidence, and tenacity. While entrepreneurship provides benefits like wealth, independence, and fulfillment, it also carries risks like income uncertainty and long work hours.
Summary presentation of the critically acclaimed book on venture capital and entrepreneurship by Flybridge general partner Jeff Bussgang (www.jeffbussgang.com)
Most investors ask startups to send a pitch deck over before a meeting, a lot of them pass and say no on the strength of that pitch deck.
We do things a little bit differently and we've actually made a pitch deck to sell ourselves to startups. We're Founder first and we see ourselves as privileged to be buying some equity in your company.
Boards and C level Executives: Balancing Trust and TensionSharath Martin
This document discusses the importance of boards of directors (NEDs) working effectively with corporate executives (C-levels). It notes a history of corporate failures when these groups did not collaborate well. NEDs are meant to provide outside perspective to evaluate strategies and hold management accountable, while C-levels want clear guidance from the board. The document emphasizes that both groups must understand each other's roles and work as a team for the company to thrive, as strategy must constantly adapt in today's quickly changing business environment. It highlights the example of Nokia, which was able to transform dramatically due to its ability to change and have a collaborative relationship between its board and executives.
Guy Rigby, Head of Entrepreneurial Services at Smith & Williamson, presented on building a global small business. He discussed the traits of successful entrepreneurs, developing a vision and strategy, maintaining flexibility while staying focused, financing options, professionalizing the business, building a brand identity and culture, sales and marketing strategies, partnerships and collaboration, international expansion, acquisition strategies ("buy and build"), and concluded that building a great business requires excelling at many small details.
Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular funding strategy for early stage entrepreneurs — but it’s not a guaranteed success. We’re partnering with IFundWomen, a crowdfunding platform for women-led businesses to bring you this workshop. Whether you are creating a campaign for funding or for market validation, we’ll help you create an enticing campaign that will resonate with your audience and provide your business with the capital it needs to keep growing. Our crowdfunding experts will walk you through practical ways to hone your pitch, map your network, strategically estimate your fundraising goal, market to your target audience, and design rewards that sell. We’ll also provide useful resources, playbooks, toolkits, etc that you will need to rock your crowdfunding campaign.
Angel investing is a great way to participate in the growing trend of entrepreneurship. Responsible investing is very important for the health of your portfolio and for your relationships with founders. Don't invest without understanding a few simple things. Equity investments are long term relationships. Investors must do their part to be good investment partners.
This document discusses community investment strategies for businesses. It defines community investment as a company's long-term strategic involvement in community partnerships to address social issues in a way that benefits both the community and the company. Effective community investment requires developing initiatives to meet community needs through providing resources like equipment, human skills and business networks. It should be a sustained effort done in partnership with communities to create long-term social and business value, rather than just short-term donations. The document provides examples of how businesses can identify local needs and partner with organizations to structure community investment programs that benefit both communities and company operations and goals.
How To Raise Capital: Understanding Your Funding Stack & Optimizing Your Fund...Lighter Capital
Despite some signs of a slowdown, the seed and venture markets are relatively healthy. However, raising capital remains one of the most challenging jobs that a startup CEO will ever undertake.
What's your fundraising strategy for remainder of 2017 and beyond? How do you plan to raise your next round, especially in a tighter VC market?
Join BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital, and Nathan Beckord, CEO of Foundersuite, on September 19 where they will discuss:
- Recent funding trends and the rise of alternative funding options
- How to think about your capital stack
- Tips on optimizing your capital raise
"Evolution of your Role as Founder" by Janis Zech (Fyber, Point Nine Capital)TheFamily
As an entrepreneur, you have to move fast and learn constantly. Let's face it: your role as a founder will evolve as your startup grow. So... do you have what it takes? We're glad to invite Janis Zech, Co-Founder of Fyber and now Venture Partner at Point Nine Capital, to share the different stages of his entrepreneurial journey!
Janis is an entrepreneur & investor passionate about tech startups, bright minds & bold ideas. He started Fyber, a cross-platform monetization & advertising solution for app developers back in 2009. Five years later, he sold it for €150M. He will share what happened in between: from doing everything himself to delegating bit by bit, building and managing a team, growing from €0 to €218M in revenues, fundraising and exiting.
It takes a special kind of mind to be able to juggle so many responsibilities while knowing what your priorities are at any given point in your startup's life. Here, Janis shares his own adventures and what he looks for in founders when investing in early stage startups.
This document provides advice and lessons learned from Dave McClure's experience as an angel investor and founder of 500 Startups accelerator. It outlines the key steps needed to successfully invest as an angel, including having sufficient capital, deal flow, expertise in evaluation and negotiations, support for portfolio companies, and connections for follow-on funding. McClure discusses his early investments from 2004-2008, noting most failures but a few large exits. The document also provides tips for new angel investors and what it takes to run a successful accelerator, including funding, branding, programs/services, deal flow, mentors, downstream capital, and proof points from past wins.
Presentation at Octopus Wealth event about the role of failure in business.George Bevis
This document discusses failure in startups and provides advice. It summarizes:
1) The author discusses his own experience failing with his startup SpeedSell, which raised less than £200k but returned nothing to investors.
2) Common mistakes that lead to failure include poor unit economics, insufficient customer lifetime value, lack of willingness to tackle hard problems, and not addressing potential issues proactively.
3) When failure is inevitable, the author advises being honest with investors and staff, trying to find jobs for staff, and paying creditors if possible to maintain honor and reputation despite failure.
Venture capital involves raising funds from investors to finance new and growing companies, taking equity stakes and actively working with the companies. The presentation provided an overview of the venture capital industry, including its history, typical fund structures, returns, and the roles of venture capital firms and entrepreneurs. It also gave statistics on venture capital investments in 2006 and trends over time.
How Your Startup Can Raise Venture Capital in the COVID-19 Eraideatoipo
This presentation will cover some of the key topics that you will need think about as you prepare your startup for venture capital funding.
The speaker will address the following and provide context for the COVID-19 era:
1) Should you be raising money from venture capital investors yet, or does it make sense to seek more angel/friends and family financing to allow you to better succeed when you seek venture capital funding?
2) What kinds of marketing documents will you need?
3) Do you have a compelling team, including the right advisors?
4) Who are your targets?
5) Is your pitch and presentation ready for a prime time audience?
6) Can you effectively answer the questions you will face?
7) Is your company prepared for legal due diligence?
The speaker, veteran startup and corporate attorney Greg Chin of Duane Morris LLP, has seen hundreds of startups succeed and fail.
Greg will address these issues and more!
This document provides guidance on starting a new business from experts Julie Brander and Steve Bloom. It outlines key steps like developing an effective elevator pitch and mission statement, testing the business idea through market research, protecting the idea with patents or trademarks, choosing an appropriate legal structure like an LLC or incorporation, securing funding, building a team, and creating a business plan to chart progress. Resources from SCORE and The Company Corporation are provided to help new entrepreneurs.
The document outlines a framework for commercializing innovations and launching new ventures. It includes stages from identifying an invention through growing operations and optimizing performance, to celebrating the societal impact. Key components are identifying needed resources and qualifications, assessing market viability, preparing a business plan and launch, managing operations, and prospering through continuous improvement. Metrics for success include numbers of startups created, capital raised, and societal impacts achieved.
Effective Communication with Angel InvestorsRemound
Effective communication is critical for private equity relationships. The entrepreneur must understand the investor's criteria including how much money is needed, intended use of funds, expected return and timeline. The communication should achieve shared understanding and help people think in new ways to act effectively. An entrepreneur needs to know what stage of development they are in and who typically invests at that stage.
The document outlines plans for an education venture capital fund called EDU that will invest in education, real estate, and hiring older workers. Key aspects include using incubators to help startup companies, focusing on gamifying education using video game techniques, and creating projects around education, renewable energy, and infrastructure. The goal is to generate profit while helping people through education and job opportunities.
The document lists the top 10 reasons why startups fail and provides advice for avoiding common pitfalls. It warns against having a single founder, the wrong team composition, being too marketing or tech-focused without balance. Other risks include choosing the wrong legal support, attempting to do too much at once, not listening to customers, remaining in stealth mode too long, being slow to launch, refusing to change initial ideas, choosing the wrong location, and suffering from "founder-itis" where the founder believes they can do everything or makes poor financial decisions. The document recommends following your intuition, thoroughly vetting potential lawyers and investors, including customers in the product development process, and not taking investment funds without accountability.
The document provides an overview of different funding options for early stage companies, including the types of investors that provide funding at different stages of growth. It discusses the importance of having the right materials prepared, such as a business summary, pitch deck, and financial model, in order to effectively pitch to potential investors. The document also outlines factors that investors consider regarding a company's risk level and the characteristics of companies that typically do and do not receive angel investment.
Wealth Dynamics Masters - The 8 Keys to Business SuccessRoger Hamilton
This document appears to be slides from a business building event called Wealth Dynamics Masters held in Bali. The slides cover various topics related to building wealth and business including defining personal and business promises, developing products and customer experiences, and understanding different business and wealth archetypes represented by symbols like wood and fire. Diagrams and frameworks are presented for areas like the customer journey, revenue models, and developing promises to attract customers, partners, and investors.
Workshop to give an overview of programmes available from Enterprise Europe Network, UKTI, Solutions for Business. THese programmes are all supported by UK and European Funding and available to SME's in the South West Region.
Everything you need to know about an investment and fundraising for start-ups. The presentation covers all different sources of financing for high growth companies:
- Bootstrapping and the four Fs
- Angel investors
- Startup accelerators
- Venture capital funds
- Investment documentation
- Alternative funding sources (crowdfunding, etc.)
- Grants and incentives
In the presentation you will also find some basics how to prepare your investment documentation and how to pitch to venture capital investors.
Start up, scale-up and sustain-up through operational excellenceDr. L.K.PANDEY .
The document discusses establishing a business incubator to support agricultural startups and entrepreneurs. It outlines objectives like understanding needs at different growth phases, identifying resource gaps, and recommending mobilization strategies. Services discussed include access to markets, advice, facilities, and financing. The business incubator aims to help clients manage risk, understand value chains, promote innovation, and design support to accelerate growth and sustainability of agribusiness startups. The final goal is to prepare startups for long-term growth planning and catalyze new entrepreneurs through demonstration effects.
Presentation delivered to Eastern Ontario Community Futures Development Corporation General Managers
Financing Alternatives
Who Accesses Equity Financing
What is Angel Investing
Who are Angel Investors
Why would someone be an Angel Investor
What type of companies do Angels invest In?
Angel Network in Canada
Halo Report 2013
Angel Investing is a changing
Pros and Cons of Accessing Venture Capital
Some Pitfalls to Avoid
Market Trends
Q & A
This presentation " Accessing Capital from an Angel Investment Network" is being delivered to Maple Leaf Angels Entrepreneur Workshop by Gerard Buckley, Managing Director, Jaguar Capital
This document discusses accessing angel capital in Canada. It provides an overview of angel investing, including what angel investing is, who angel investors are, why they invest in early stage companies, and the benefits for entrepreneurs. It also discusses angel networks in Canada, typical investment amounts and criteria, and how the traditional angel network is changing with new models emerging. The presentation aims to help entrepreneurs understand how to access this source of capital.
Economic Gardening: A New Tool Helping Businesses Grow and Expandnado-web
Economic Gardening is a way to help businesses in your regions make calculated decisions that can result in increased revenues and jobs. Facilitated by a leading Economic Gardening expert from the Edward Lowe Foundation, Penny Lewandowski, attendees at this session of the 2015 NADO Annual Training Conference learned how to leverage research using business intelligence tools and databases that growth companies in your regions might not be aware of or simply cannot afford. Focus areas of Economic Gardening include: strategic market research, geographic information systems, search engine optimization, and social media marketing. Leave this session with new ideas for helping businesses in your region expand and grow by implementing new concepts and approaches.
The document proposes an education plan called EDU that utilizes older people to assist and mentor younger people. It would establish for-profit incubators to help develop startup companies and provide them resources like accounting, legal, and marketing services. The goal is to educate people in a low-cost way through projects and programs focused on areas like renewable energy, job training, and high-speed internet access. It estimates $3 billion in funding would be needed to get the incubators and various projects off the ground.
Building a Successful Money Management BusinessCale Smith
This document provides an overview of Cale Smith's presentation on building a successful money management business from the ground up. Cale is the founder of Islamorada Investment Management, a value investing firm with two funds. He discusses the stages of growing a one-man firm, focusing initially on putting up good numbers and serving investors. Cale also outlines his approach of creating "Spoke Funds", which are more transparent and affordable alternatives to traditional mutual funds and hedge funds. The presentation covers best practices and key tools for operations, compliance, marketing and growing assets in a sustainable way.
The document provides an overview of pitching for startup investment, including common reasons entrepreneurs seek funding, typical sources of funding at different stages, and key expectations of angel investors. It also cautions that most startups fail and the most common exit is through acquisition rather than IPO. The workshop will focus on helping aspiring founders create effective investor pitch presentations to fuel their business ideas.
This document provides guidance on corporate fundraising and developing successful corporate partnerships. It outlines 5 principles: approach corporations strategically by researching prospects that align with your mission and values; understand the corporation's motivations for philanthropic support which may include PR, employee engagement, or customer loyalty; have an initial meeting to clearly present your case for support and listen to the corporation's goals; various forms of corporate support include sponsorships, payroll giving, and pro bono work; and maintain the partnership by keeping it fresh, having both parties sign off on goals, and being willing to end partnerships that are not mutually beneficial. The document advises charities to professionally network, pitch their cause succinctly, and develop long-term partnerships through open
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17. Ask potential business attorney…
• Emerging growth business before?
• How much time for you?
• Raised multiple rounds of financing?
• Create/Read a Capitalization Table?
• Developed a PPM?
• Compensation packages for new hires?
• IP protection?
• Global expansion?
• Experience with exits – M&As, IPO, quit?
• Talk to current/former client?
28. • The first investor conference of its kind
• Regional approach to entrepreneurial dev
• Corvallis this year – Eugene next year…
• Modeled after Angel Oregon and Bend
Venture Conference
29. Model…
• 25 accredited investors at $5,000/each
– $1 M personal net worth or $200K/year
• 200 attendees
• 44 business plans
• 6 companies pitched 10 mins
• 5 companies pitched Ignite (3.5 mins)
• One winner: $125,000 in seed funding
• One conference/year (Corvallis/Eugene)
30. Goals…
– Connect entrepreneurs
with expertise and
financing for success
– Increase skills of
entrepreneurs
– Increase number and
engagement of angel
investors
– Promote our region as a
vital market for new
venture development
32. Local angels…
• Accredited Angels from Lane County
– Worth minimum of $1M in assets
– Earn minimum of $200K/year
• Review business plans
• Eugene Chamber conducts due diligence/
screening for good deal flow
• Company pitches 4x/year
• Chose whether to invest
– Individually
– Co-invest
33. Summary to engage…
• Attend Smart-ups on Jul 23rd at OES
• Subscribe to smartups.org RSS Feed
• Free Review of your exec summary/PPT
• Join smartups.ning.com (community)
• Join OEN.org | “virtual membership”
– $35 students/40 individuals