05/02/2007
Smart Startup Guide
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Startup Secrets Of The Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Learn How To Finance Your Startup The Way Serial Entrepreneurs Do.
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Startup Secrets Of The Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Learn How To Finance Your Startup The Way Serial Entrepreneurs Do.
Let's Summarize the First Half Lesson: cashflow wins far more respect from investors than the "great" business plan. If you are not an industry star you can begin to build your credibility up by finding a means of creating cashflow in your industry.
How quickly do I get the Guide? * Finders: I can help you raise money for a fee…and, by the way, I require a retainer up-front.
* It can drastically reduce the amount of capital needed to launch. Robert Carmody, CEO
* Business Plan Services: We'll write a business plan for you which will attract funding. Only $999. anywhere near as helpful. Ted Fierstein
Important Info! It you don't meet the above criteria venture capital funding won't happen.
Testimonials What is the venture capital catch-22? Well, startups need venture capital to start, but venture capitalists and angel investors only fund companies which already have traction (i.e., sales). This is one big reason why no one is funding you.
Never forget that. * It will teach you to think like a savvy veteran entrepreneur who focusses on cashflow creation rather than on begging for money from strangers.
2. Most die on the vine. In many cases, the wannabe entrepreneur simply abandons the project and moves on to something else. (As the joke goes, "That's why God created 'jobs' ".) An Entrepreneur's Must Read! Practical, trustworthy, real, encouraging are a few of the words that come to my mind after reading this manual. You will get a lot out of this. A Harvard MBA in 220 pages: business models, finance, and creativity all bundled together to help you achieve cashflow now instead of wasting time chasing venture capital.
* Second, based on the fact that your typical early stage venture capital firm invests in only one company out of every 500 business plans it reviews, your odds of succeeding are only 1:500. (If you are pursuing angel investors your odds improve to maybe 1:200, although no one knows the numbers for certain.) Having been exposed to innumerable articles and books on start-ups and capital raising, I expected this manual to be more of the same. Instead, it enters new territory, by identifying the 'right moves' made by successful entrepreneurs...often unwittingly, and so provides those who follow them with a chance to get their start-up formula right. Its strength is in allowing entrepreneurs to learn