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What every angel investor wants you to know : an insider reveals how to get smart funding for your billion dollar idea /
"When you connect with the right angel investor, it's like finding a new best friend--you just have to know what makes him or her happy. Smart funding is waiting for smart founders. Raising funds is all about connecting with the investor who's right for you--and What Every Angel Inves...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. Dedication
- B. Foreword
- C. Introduction
- The closest thing to slavery
- Startups are a social good
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Follow your passion?or not
- Some words about the book
- 1. Angel investing is a contact sport
- You can't be successful at a distance
- Know what you're getting into
- You are in control
- Four attributes of fundable startups
- Exciting time
- 2. Early stage investing and why angels are your new best friend
- Why i'm an angel investor
- Do angel investors make money?
- Angels at work
- Angels and vcs
- Risks of letting vcs into your seed round
- 3. Let's get to know each other
- Know the outcome
- The perfect elevator pitch
- More chutzpah, please
- Basic questions
- How do i want to be contacted?
- The single best question to ask me
- Publicstuff
- Feast with me
- High-touch investor
- 4. What i'm looking for in an entrepreneur
- Start the presentation with you
- Integrity
- Previous entrepreneurial experience
- Leadership chemistry and management experience
- Domain knowledge
- Skills
- Street smarts
- Introducing comixology
- Take the audition seriously
- Startups led by women do better
- Other attributes i look for
- Passion and vision
- If you want a good coach, be coachable
- 5. What i look for in the pitch
- A presentation is like a shark
- What delights me in a presentation
- Show me you're in control
- How will my investment be used?
- Start with yourself
- Valuation expectations
- Make me smarter
- The bid for action
- Pitching turnoffs
- 6. Every business starts with a belief
- Belief + execution = success
- Your idea is not as important as you think it is
- Understand underwear
- Jaxx: a messaging platform for men
- 7. Investor raising vs. Money raising
- It's not easy to turn down money
- Do you write checks?
- Meet angel investor jeff pulver
- Outside eyes and ears
- 8. Don't hurt the ones who love you
- Manage expectations
- 9. Going belly to belly with your customer
- What solution is the customer hiring?
- Market
- Iq is overrated
- 10. Due diligence and do diligence
- Call it discovery
- East and west
- Anticipate due diligence
- Dreading due diligence
- 11. Accelerators, incubators, and crowdfunding
- Accelerators and incubators
- Doing more smarter, faster
- Y combinator and techstars
- Crowdfunding
- 12. It's all about teammanship
- Indicators that really matter to me
- 13. Getting to no is just as important as getting to yes
- It's about time
- Deserve a quick no
- 14. Iterating the startup
- Iteration vs. Pivot
- Attractive to angels
- Iteration is the new innovation
- Iterate is a verb
- 15. Baking in the exit from the beginning
- The business process that pays off most
- Two exits
- The acqui-hire
- Whose exit strategy is it anyway?
- A. Due diligence checklist
- B. The new york angels term sheet
- Terms for private placement of seed series preferred stock of [insert company name], inc.
- C. Five indispensable tools founders can use to do due diligence on angels
- Gust
- Angellist
- Techcrunch
- Quora
- D. Own your venture equity simulator
- E. Acknowledgments
- F. About the authors
- G. About the new york angels.