Social web business models. Automotive Industry. U.S. Federal Government. Finance. Bootstrapper » Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every E. Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every Entrepreneur Needs Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 1:27pm by Site Administrator By Eliza Morgan Many entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. Business Operations Don’t get caught off guard by the unexpected financial pitfalls of owning a business.
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I’ve been enjoying the meetings I’ve had over the last few weeks, but some of them have reminded me what I routinely see missing from most pitches. Here are the things that nearly every early stage investor needs to bet on that are too often missing: 1) Strong sense of the key milestones – Entrepreneurs often ask what metrics they need to get to in order to get an investment.
I often turn that question around and get them to tell me what the important milestones are. Milestones are a waterfall—and having them as goals should inform product, marketing, financing, etc. 2) Implementation of a product strategy – Especially at the stage that First Round is looking at deals (as early as a Powerpoint), we all know that the current product, as designed, is no doubt going to need a lot of work. 4 MORE ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor | (Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.) As someone who has both sought venture capital and distributed it, I’m lucky to have a pretty unique perspective on what works and doesn’t work. As I mentioned in thety handed, but clueless about what killed their chances of getting funding. What follows are four additional problems I see all the time: Have a big monthly burn. This depends on the type of business, but most software companies nowadays can be built with almost no expenses except wages – and even then, the founders should be taking a nominal salary until there’s revenue.
Huge expenses at the beginning are scary because expenses only go up. This is especially true of founders’ salaries. So how do you address expenses? Break out: wages, overhead, COGS at least. Pretend this isn’t risky. You’re at the earliest, riskiest stage of a business. Here’s your mindset. Don’t interview me. Here’s how to do it: A VC’s Advice On How To Pitch VCs. Editor’s Note: In this guest post, Raj Kapoor gives entreprenuers advice on how to pitch VCs. Kapoor knows both sides of the equation. For the past five years, he’s been a VC at the Mayfield Fund. Before that he founded the photo site Snapfish, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard. Its been almost five years now that I’ve been in venture capital. I finally know what i don’t know.
The one thing I do know is how to give better advice on pitching VCs now that I’ve sat through hundreds of pitches and made 8 investments. I’ve mentioned in the past that there are some key things you should include in your presentation when you are pitching a VC. Also, I’ve found that if all the informoation below is addressed succinctly in an executive summary or first pitch deck, it can help us make a much faster decision —which is what the entrepreneur wants and so do we.
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