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Don’t Worry About Losing All Your Investors’ Money

Don’t Worry About Losing All Your Investors’ Money

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 10, 2015

In both my start-ups, I was constantly worried about losing all my investors’ money.  The first time, my first start-up which we haven’t talked about, NanoGram Devices, I mainly worried about it because I realized we’d almost never have enough capital to achieve our long-term goals.  So, FBOW, we sold for $50,000,000 after 12.5 months. […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged echosign, investment, Investor, Metrics & Operations, Seed money, Series A round, Startup company, The Journey, venture capital | 1 Response

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One Surefire Way to Screw up Your Lifestyle Business

By Derek Pilling on September 2, 2011

Some businesses are designed – maybe even destined – to be owner operated. Industry parlance often refers to these businesses as lifestyle businesses. Wikipedia has a nice definition. They are typically small, profitable, generate cash and enable their owner-operator to sustain a well-above average lifestyle. In some circumstances, they may even make their owner-operator filthy […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur, Growth Equity, Investment Selection, Investor, lessons learned, lifestyle business, Raising Capital

8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

By Mark Suster on February 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “Time is the Enemy of all Deals.” When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t. So how should […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Ries, Fundraising, Investor, Startup Advice, startups, vc funding, venture capital, venture funding

An Entrepreneur’s Growth Equity Conundrum: Should I sell stock or sell growth?

An Entrepreneur’s Growth Equity Conundrum: Should I sell stock or sell growth?

By Derek Pilling on November 12, 2010

Two times in the past year, I’ve been close to making an investment in two separate micro-cap growth equity opportunities only to have the opportunity go sideways deep into the process. The two businesses share a lot in common; they are similar in size, profitability, and growth prospects. Both are capital-intensive; the first being asset […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Growth Equity, Investor, Private equity, startups, vc funding, venture capital, venture funding

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