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Securing Capital: Essential Actions Startup Owners Must Take When Pitching to VCs

It’s not easy to build a startup from scratch and take it into the stratosphere on your own. Bootstrapping your business can be severely financially and emotionally taxing -- with no guarantee of success in...

byRebecca Barnatt-Smith

July 25, 2022

Through Mentoring, Angel Investors Offer More Than Just Money

Captaining a new enterprise is like constructing a parachute after you’ve been thrown out of a plane: It’s difficult, it’s dangerous, you’re pressed for time and a wrong decision can be fatal. When faced with...

byRebecca Wessell

June 17, 2022

How Venture Capitalist Diane Yoo Chooses Her Startup Investments

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. Of course, every VC dreams of investing...

byDiane Yoo

November 16, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: IPO Marketing Slowing (Episode 53)

We've highlighted on previous Business Beat segments how early stage funding from angels and venture capitalists, for example, is slowing amid the COVID-19 crisis. But now we've got news that the Initial Public Offering marketplace...

byStartupNation

May 13, 2020

How to Find and Secure an Angel Investor

Lately, I’ve seen many conversations on how to raise early funds for your startup. If you have at the very least a working prototype, and have exhausted your friends and family network, you might consider...

byDonna Griffit

November 28, 2018

3 Things Entrepreneurs Must Do to Increase Their Startup’s Chance of Survival

Entrepreneurship is often idealized — you can “be your own boss,” attain “financial freedom” and work a “four hour workweek” — right? Well, yes, those things are possible, especially in the long run. At least...

byTim Chavez

August 9, 2018

Why Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Look at Teams, Not Ideas

Many would-be entrepreneurs spend hours, weeks and maybe even years working on the “perfect” idea to attract venture capital funding. They travel from coast to coast, setting up meetings and refining their idea. However, the...

byMark Lamoriello

March 7, 2018

8 Funding Alternatives to Consider for Your Startup

When it comes to funding your startup, you may not know exactly where to start. While you could certainly seek out a small business loan, microloan or other program designed to get you the capital...

byCher Zevala

March 10, 2017