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Compress Time

The beauty of compression is that it eliminates time wasted on tasks that aren't moving you toward your goal quickly.

Startup Equity 101

A startup equity investor isn't looking for simple interest payment on their money. They are exchanging more risk for more reward – a lot more.

How Fundraising Works

The fundraising process can be broken down into 3 steps; prep, match, and pitch. It's crucial to complete each step if yo're serious about raising capital.

The Process of Pitching Investors

Preparing to pitch investors is all about getting your pitch materials in order. Most investor introductions follow a common sequence of events.

How to Find Venture Capital

The first step to find venture capital is to make a smart introduction to the venture capital firm you’re interested in meeting.

How to Raise Venture Capital

When you start to raise venture capital for your company you’ll quickly find there’s a common process each venture firm utilizes.

How Venture Capital Firms Work

It's helpful when pitching venture capital firms to understand the mechanics of how the venture fund itself works.

Key Pitch Assets for Your Fundraise

Once you have your fundraising plan and your pitch list together, it's time to make sure you have all of your key pitch assets in order.

Making a Good Introduction

Like any business situation, your first impression with an investor goes a long way. There are a few ways to get it right, and many ways to get it wrong.

Pitching Venture Capital Firms

You really only get one shot making the right impression with each venture capital firm and you don't want to blow your chances because you didn't prepare.

Profile of a Venture Capitalist

A venture capitalist is charged with finding a small number of investments. Here's how to compete for venture capitalists' time, not just their money.

The Funding Landscape

Entrepreneurs have quite a few funding options available when raising capital that generally fall into three categories - bootstrapping, debt and equity.

Venture Capital Funding

Venture capital funding is both the most commonly referenced and yet commonly misunderstood form of investor capital available.

Billionaire Advice for Entrepreneurs

Great advice from billionaire entrepreneurs, including Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim, George Soros and Carl Icahn.

Traction

There are many types of traction - forming your company, hiring staff, and signing up paying customers. All of them are critical to building the business.

You Are Already Ready

Entrepreneurs often wonder what the right time is to launch a company. They wait for the stars to align, for their career to prepare them for something big.

Startup Priority List

Putting your time and effort into your priorities will make much better use of your time as a startup founder. Don't get distracted by running errands.

Tapping Your Network for Crowdfunding Success

The success of your crowdfunding campaign will largely rest on how effectively you communicate your launch within your various networks.

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