Now that you’ve been thinking about obtaining sponsorships as a way of funding a project, it’s time to start preparing and doing your homework to prepare for the opportunities.
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Google and Internet advertising have been around for more than a decade. Entrepreneurs think in terms of the pennies and dimes of Google AdSense, when they could be getting far more from sponsors.
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Venture debt financing is a means for start-ups to raise short-term funding from non-bank lenders and specialized banks. Once used for equipment purchases, it has become available to finance just about anything.
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I used to work for a start-up CEO and he was a real huckster. Here is some of his wisdom on start-up funding, investors, and sales.
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Have you ever wondered what happens to those investor-backed start-ups? Do they fulfill their promise? is their future really as bright as they say?
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Are you thinking of getting funding for your start-up from angel investors? What kind of results do angels get? What do angels want from entrepreneurs? Angels are really quite earthly.
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Many times I’ve heard entrepreneurs say they approached an investor and were turned down, but they never knew why. Here is an story about why I passed on a start-up investment, about how investors think.
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Many entrepreneurs hope to attract venture capital funding. The first stop is often the VC firm, but what do venture capitalists want? Seasoned entrepreneurs know the start-up funding process is a sales process, so what happens when the process is applied?
What turns off investors about entrepreneurs? Here are 5 wannabe entrepreneurs and what they said or did that make investors pass on their proposals.
Continue 3 Comments March 16, 2011
Every start-up has two products and customers. The first is the company’s reason to exist, offer a product to end users. The second, and not as obvious, is the investor who funds the start-up. For the investor, the company is the product. From this view, the entrepreneur to to develop a pricing strategy for investors so fund raising can be maiximized.
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