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3 points to keep in mind before pitching to investor

1. Don't offer too much equity, too soon.  Beware of parting with more than one third of your company in the first funding round (called Series A), warns Lori Hoberman, the head of Chadbourne & Parke's emerging companies and venture-capital practice. While you may be tempted to give investors a higher percentage of your company in exchange for more cash, she says don't do it. As your company grows, you may need to raise additional rounds and give away more of your company down the road, so remember to think ahead.  2. Know your numbers.  You are going to have to impress the investors with your backwards-and-forwards knowledge of your financial projections. If you are intimidated by the math, bring an expert in to help you prepare. But when it's time to present to investors, you -- the entrepreneur -- are going to have to talk with confidence about how your company is going to make money, when you will break even, and what your market looks like.  Determ...

HOW A START-UP FUNDING WORKS

First, let’s figure out why we are talking about funding as something you need to do. This is not a given. The opposite of funding is “bootstrapping,” the process of funding a startup through your own savings. There are a few companies that bootstrapped for a while until taking investment, like MailChimp and AirBnB. If you know the basics of how funding works, skim to the end. In this article I am giving the easiest to understand explanation of the process. Let’s start with the basics. affiliate program Every time you get funding, you give up a piece of your company. The more funding you get, the more company you give up. That ‘piece of company’ is ‘equity.’ Everyone you give it to becomes a co-owner of your company. Splitting the Pie The basic idea behind equity is the splitting of a pie. When you start something, your pie is really small. You have a 100% of a really small, bite-size pie. When you take outside investment and your company grows, your pie becomes bigger....

OVERFUNDING KILLS A START-UP

A good business plan was presented to investors. They liked it a lot. They trusted your energy and efforts put in it and promise you initial seed funding. Now that you got some capital you search for a co founder, share the capital with him. He also brings his expertise and  expands your business. Seeing your business grow you get more funding. Then the aim to be an entrepreneur shifts to become a money making machine whose each action is limited to raise some funds. Indians have witness a chain of startups in say any segment you can think of. The startups were accepted by public on account that they were solving there problems, making life simple. So what we have got, a mobile app to order food, look for houses or a piece of land on rent or even a plumber. But the main question is why startups are going in loss? Why do people leave the idea they nurtured as their own kid? I recently went through news of Rahul Yadav EX CEO of Housing.com resigning first and ultimately fire...

WEB HOSTING:BEST WAY TO MAKE MONEY

If you have been following most of the top bloggers and internet marketers, who are into affiliate marketing , one suggestion from them is if your niche allows get into  WebHosting affiliate programs.  Web hosting affiliate is one of the most lucrative and one of the highest paying affiliate programs available. There are many people out there who are making thousands of dollars from commissions by selling and promoting different WebHosting Companies such as HostGator, GoDaddy, DreamHost,  Bluehost Etc.These are not the only Hosting companies that are providing Affiliate Options; almost all the hosting companies offer affiliate earning possibilities. Eespecially, if your blog teaches about how to blog, how to start a website or around Blogging and hosting niche,  Webhosting affiliate  can always help to earn more than what you are earning from  Adsense  or any Ad network. Here we will look at some of the reasons on how  ...

Best way to get ROI for promotions in malls

IF you manage communication and marketing for a shopping mall, please read on for some ideas and examples of how to create promotions, contests and sweepstakes which will help you dynamize publicity. Take advantage of our suggestions and put them in practice with Easypromos. They will help you attract customers, incentivize consumption and loyalize clients.             Whether or not a  shopping mall  is successful depends on many factors and variables which should be studied strategically before getting the project underway. These factors include access, location, services, variety of establishments, ease of parking, and so on. But the  Online Marketing  actions we carry out are also fundamental and play a huge part in attracting consumers or possible clients. Such actions incentivize consumption in the establishments – in terms of both frequency and value; loyalize customers; avoid excessive sales seasonality; encourage th...