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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. Contact our private placement memorandum experts. Detail all revenue streams. Be sure to include all revenue streams. read more.

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

They focus on newer products and markets that can reasonably project increasing sales by huge multiples over a short period of time. Don’t take private placement, angels, friends, and family as good sources of investment capital just because they are described here or taken seriously in some other source of information.

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SEC Expands “Accredited Investor” Definition

Scott Edward Walker

The most common exemption used by startups is the so-called “private placement” exemption under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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20 Reasons Why You Need a Business Plan

Growthink Blog

For example, during difficult economic conditions, if your current sales and operational models aren’t working, you can rewrite your business plan to define, try, and validate new ideas and strategies. Or, if you're creating your own PPM, you can save time and money with Growthink's new private placement memorandum template.

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Early stage money: The problem with PPMs

Berkonomics

The sale of equity in private companies is regulated by the Securities Act of 1933, which requires that the company either register with the SEC or meet one of several exemptions (Regulation D). A Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) is a special business plan defined to meet an SEC exemption.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

This process is normally known as doing a “private placement&# and we agreed that in most cases you don’t want an i-bank involved in raising your first round of capital. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Total raised: $1.3mm. TechCrunch. TechCrunch.

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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware!

Scott Edward Walker

In other words, in the event of the startup’s “acquisition” (which is often broadly defined to include a merger, change of control or sale of substantially all its assets), the maturity date of the note would be accelerated, and the amount of the loan, plus interest, would become due at the closing of the acquisition. 2) Broker-Dealers.

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