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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. A total of 30 per cent of business-to-business (B2B) invoices issued to foreign companies were paid late and 6.5 If an overseas customer is not able to settle an account due to liquidity problems, sourcing local finance to bridge the gap is an option.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). Once you talk through the roadmap and milestones, it sets the stage for the final slide (and the reason you’re meeting with investors) – how much you’re raising and what you plan to accomplish with this round of financing.

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How does Invoice Factoring work for a Manufacturing Company?

The Startup Magazine

When B2B business partners with a factoring company or a factor, the company can sell its outstanding invoices in exchange for advance cash. Invoice factoring for manufacturing is a finance plan that a factoring company offers exclusively to manufacturing companies. About Manufacturing Invoice Financing.

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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

Pre-seed investing should be super simple, so any signs of pro-rata rights, tranched financings, charging the company for value-added services, etc. As an inexperienced founder, you are very likely to take at least two rounds of financing before a series A, so the round to try to skip is any sort of second seed. should be avoided.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing.

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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Go B2B… 2C. Advice For The Young At Heart Asif Khan Funding fundraising startup startup financing' Visionary investors love this stuff because it’s all blue ocean ahead which means minimal to no competition. The ability to create a new niche segment within an industry is very attractive to investors.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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