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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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Venture Capital for Software Companies: Does It Fit Your Startup?

Getting funded by a Venture Capital firm is one of the most discussed topics for startup CEOs in SaaS, mobile software and hardware companies. Venture Capital for software companies is the “Holy Grail” of the early stage set. To many, it implicitly means to people that you’ve “got something”. It’s considered an endorsement of future […]

Filed Under: Corporate Strategy, Financing Tagged With: CEO, Institutional capital, mobile software, SaaS startup, software company, VC, Venture Capital, venture capital for software

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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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KPI Metrics for Software and Hardware Technology Company Success

There is a range of operating styles among entrepreneurs in hardware and software companies. Some CEOs are “quants”; very numbers oriented. Others, especially in the early days, base most of their strategic decisions on experience, feel and “gut”. I believe that there is room for both of these approaches in strategy development; especially in the […]

Filed Under: Corporate Strategy, Operations, Startup/Early Stage Tagged With: ARR, burn rate, CAC, CEO, consultant, consulting, CRR, data analytics, early stage, failure rates, Gross Profit Margin, hardware, high tech, KPI metrics, KPIs, LTV, management, MRR, NPS, Phil Morettini, PJM Consulting, revenue, RGR, SaaS, software, startup, tech, technology, VC

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