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Are Angel Investors Right for your Hardware or Software Business?

As I’ve written before, obtaining VC funding is the holy grail among many early stage tech company founders. But with rare exceptions,  a startup company needs to hit some milestones, demonstrating proof of concept, product/market fit and usually significant revenue traction before VCs will seriously consider an investment.  In addition, for many companies VC funding […]

Filed Under: Financing, Startup/Early Stage Tagged With: Angel Funding, angel investment, Angel investors, friends and family funding, Funding Rounds, fundraising, hardware, SaaS, SaaS startup, software, Startup Management, tech, VC, VC funding

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The Series A Funding Squeeze

More and more startups are getting seed funding these days and have for a number of years. That’s a good thing. Below we’ll discuss some of the reasons for this phenomenon. But at least partially as a result of this good fortune for software, SaaS and other startups, a second phenomenon has occurred along with […]

Filed Under: Corporate Strategy, Financing Tagged With: early stage, Funding milestones, Funding Rounds, fundraising, mobile software, SaaS, Series A, Series A funding, software, tech startup, tech startups, VC, VC funding, Venture Capital

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7 Reasons that VC Said No to your Startup

Raising money is the “Holy Grail” early milestone for a great many entrepreneurs leading software and hardware companies. Even though I’ve been in that position and have done it myself, I’ve always found this phenomenon a bit curious. There is a romantic element to the successful raising of funds – someone loves me (my company)! […]

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SaaS Startup: 5 Key Bootstrapping vs. Fundraising Considerations

One of the very first critical decisions for a SaaS startup is deciding whether to seeking outside funding from Angels or VCs – or fund initially through a bootstrap approach. There are many factors that should be considered in this decision, some of which are the specifics of the market you are entering, your own […]

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Strategic Fundraising Decisions

Almost every company goes through it, except for the fortunate few. Some people have gone through it multiple times. While never easy, raising money for a second or third company (assuming success the first time!) is a picnic, compared to the first time. Let’s look at what I refer to as strategic fundraising: The questions […]

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