anselm zebner co-founder evolute

Selling to B2B clients as a startup is easier than you think

In our series on startups from Cologne, DueDash is interviewing Evolute Founder Anselm Zebner. His product enables craftsmen to provide feedback to the producers directly to ensure that they can improve their products according to what users actually need. Anselm tells us how he met his co-founder, how his former sales experience helps him with B2B clients, and…

Steps to angel investment

Angel investment in 7 simple steps

As a startup, securing an angel investment from an investor is a great opportunity. While venture capitalists usually focus on larger investments and may be very hands-off, an angel investor is more flexible and may be willing to work with you as a mentor. How do you get the attention of an angel investor and…

Investor ready

Are you “investor ready”?

We ask this question often – Is your startup investor ready? I will reveal the most received answer at the bottom of the article. So read on………. What exactly investor readiness means to you? Considering every startup is distinctive in its own way, how do you generalize? We have been investing and have many friends in the…

Areas investors analyze

7 areas investors analyze when they evaluate you!

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…

where are the investors hiding

Where are the investors and angels hiding?

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…

raising capital with a pitch deck

Can you raise capital with just a pitch deck?

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…

Zooming our way to a virtual accelerator

Zooming our way to a virtual accelerator

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…

Solving a problem

Is your business really solving a problem?

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…

The founding team

The founding team: A startup’s foundation

A startup’s success depends on many factors, of which the idea itself is just a minor part. In the end, the idea is just the starting point from which great business may flourish. But then the question remains: What is it that makes businesses so successful? Investors bet on the jockey, not the horse If…

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  • September 15, 2020

Your path to successful funding

Let’s start by defining a startup.As we say this word the definition takes many forms. There are no set rules, there is no magic wand, there is no secret recipe nor are there any scientific approaches and there are thousands of books and mentors out there to address this topic.Startups are anything but traditional businesses…