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Board of Directors Number of Meetings
As Jim and I continue our Board Meeting series, we've decided to address a question that we are often asked - "How Many Board Meetings Should A VC-backed company have?"
5 Tips for E-mailing Busy People
Even after outsourcing my e-mail to a virtual assistant, there are still a few messages that come over the transom.

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Equity Financing
Most small or growth-stage businesses use equity financing in a limited way. As with debt financing, most of the time additional equity comes from non-professional investors such as friends, relatives, employees, customers or industry colleagues.
Hey, What if the Founder Gets Hit By a Bus? Nada
One of the questions investors in early-stage companies -- both private and public -- often ask is this: What if the founder gets hit by a bus? It is, of course, an investor's way of saying, "How much of this company's continuing success requires this man/women at the helm?"
Putting an Empty Home on the Market is Leaving Money on the Table
The popularity of television shows such as “Flip This House” on A&E have made real estate investing very popular. However, many investors are so anxious to list their property that they neglect to stage it to sell. Skipping this step means a lower selling price and a lower ROI.

MARKETING YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BUSINESSES DEVELOPMENT.
Marketing concept has evolved over the years. It has gone through some sort of evolution to where we are today. There have been marked stages and these stages are the following: Industrial revolution: at this stage specialization took place, with the industrial revolution, wages were introduced. At this stage the farmers could produce and sell to the industrial workers. The marketing and the business concept was simple at this stage but later become more complicated eventually. In marketing this stage is called the production stage, it took a while and Henry Ford perfected it. He came up with the car assembly and mass market was born. At this stage there was limited choice for the customer.

Early Stage Startup Finance: What You Need Is Dumb Money
Many startups seeking angel capital aren't actually far enough along from a development perspective to be attractive to early stage investors. In essence, there is an entrepreneurial myth that angels invest in concepts or ideas. This is rarely the case- angels typically want to see some level of progress being made with the business before getting seriously interested. So what does a cash-strapped entrepreneur do to get off the ground? They raise what is called a "friends and family" round. This article discusses the attributes of this type of seed stage investing, and provides some tips for putting together a viable deal.
Startup Valuation: 3 Tips For Putting A Price On Your Company
When raising angel or venture capital, startup founders are often concerned with questions about the valuation of their company. Putting a value on an early stage company-- especially one with very little or no revenue and negative cash flow-- is difficult to do, since most traditional valuation methods do not work well for startups. In this article, we discuss how startup companies are valued by investors and how you should set a valuation range when dealing with seed, angel, or VC investors.

Warning Signs You May Be Dealing With a Decoy Angel Investor Or Venture Capital Fund
Decoy Investors are people who pose as an investor usually with an alternative motive to get the unsuspecting entrepreneur to pay them some sort of a fee before closing. Unfortunately, for deceitful people, the easiest thing to sell an aspiring entrepreneur is HOPE. What are the warning signs? How can you spot a scam artist posing as an investor? What can you do to protect yourself and your business? We list 7 different types of Decoy Investors to beware of when trying to find early stage capital.

Entrepreneurs Raising Early Stage Venture Capital are in a Beauty Contest
Startup and Early Stage entrepreneurs must compete for the attention and limited capital available from angel investors and early stage venture capitalists. In many ways it can be compared to a Beauty Contest. The business fundamentals of a successful business are in place, but to be "picked" from the other companies also pitching those investors, that company must be the most attractive to that investor, that judge who will decide if the company qualifies to go to the next stage in the process.

Ten key hooks for investors in early stage businesses
Family and friends are a great source of funding for start-ups and early stage businesses, but raising money from external investors or business angels is more challenging. Here are ten of the key issues that investors will be considering when they meet you or read your business plan.

Angel Investors Where Are You?
Looking for Angel investors and can’t find them? Depending on your business stage of development and growth you are probably looking in all the wrong places.
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