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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. The later the round, the higher the letter in the alphabet, the more the expectation of real revenue, real customers, real usage, real traction. And to get those returns, we need very big wins.

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How To Find Support Resources For Your Startup Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

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Six Companies That Were Targeted In 2017: Seven Lessons We Can Learn From Their Struggles

YoungUpstarts

Procter & Gamble, the biggest company ever targeted this way, made headlines in 2017 when Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners demanded, and ultimately won, a seat on its board. One thing’s for sure: No company is immune to activist investors. Activist Investor Target: CSX Railroad. Activist Investor Target: Honeywell.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic. It started in healthcare.

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Every Startup Goes Through Distinctive Funding Phases

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Long before others, they saw that these applications could have hundreds of millions of users with “off the chart&# revenue and profits. The awareness phase is where other later-stage investors start to notice the momentum, bringing additional money in and pushing prices higher. We have just entered the mania phase.