Oftentimes, we explore various combinations of ownership in our ideas and businesses. And that leads to an uneven split for a variety of reasons. Here, we’re discussing ways to split the pie objectively and the excuses that prevent us from doing that. Equity, or ownership, is a way to fund your idea. Every entrepreneur commits…
If you fail at these, investors will say goodbye to you. It’s a new year and you are ready and energized to go find investors for your startup, believing that nothing can stop you. But wait! You haven’t checked your startup and materials yet. So before you send out that pitch deck or next cold…
Now in continuation of the previous post, let us consider one Founding Team with three co-founders. As I said early, one can split and change each value by a percentage no more than twice the number of cofounders. With 3 in a team, the ideal is 33.33% for each. However, basis on certain parameters I…
You are going through a nerve-wracking experience. You have sent out many emails and reached out to many investors over so many social channels and yet got no response. If this describes your problem, then read on…….. Let me give you a bit of a background. Parul Madan and I have been serial entrepreneurs and moved into angel investing a few years ago. We…
Advice #1 You’re not ready to raise capital when you’re buried in personal debt. I’m mentoring a number of founders and one in particular is trying to solve funding his startup, plus his own income at the same time from the intended new capital. It doesn’t work like that. At least not as your motivation.…
Once you’ve created all the content for your pitch, you are probably ready to sit back and admire your hard work. Sorry to break it to you, but you’re not done yet. Once you’ve picked out all the tastiest morsels of content that demonstrate how fantastic this opportunity is for investors, you need to go…
There are so many ideas out there, so how do investors judge if yours is the next rocket to take off? What happens when you send a pitch deck to investors You just sent an investor pitch deck over email, LinkedIn, or somewhere else. Great! You feel a bit of anxiety over it and how…
Your pitch is your story – and you need to tell it brilliantly. It’s a compelling narrative that should take your investor on a journey, which hopefully ends with them keen to get on board. So, when you create your pitch, the first thing you need to consider is the structure you’ll follow. After all,…
As we embarked on this exciting journey last year to launch a very specialized 5G startup accelerator program here in Cologne/Bonn, Germany; little did we know that we will be hit by a pandemic which would dramatically impact all our planning and execution. COVID-19 changed the world for all of us in more than one way and we had…
Young entrepreneurs often tend to imagine how great their product or service will be on the market and even bring change to people’s behavior. Often, they even fail to bring their product on the market. Many times, the problem begins with the same: The “problem” that the business tries solving. Advice #1: Don’t come up…
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