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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

About Growthink Since 1999, Growthink's professional business plan writers and investment bankers have assisted more than 2,000 clients in launching and growing their businesses, and raising more than $1 billion in growth financing. Contact our private placement memorandum experts. Need help with your business plan?

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

Most healthy businesses need business financing at some point. Startups have to deal with starting costs and ongoing businesses have to finance growth and working capital. Financing options depend on what kind of business you have. Don’t waste your time looking for the wrong kind of financing.

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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. Venture Financing. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? We also discussed the following deals of the week. Watch the show!

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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware!

Scott Edward Walker

This post is the third part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled “ Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) ,” addressed the basics. Part 2, entitled “ Convertible Note Seed Financings: Econ 101 for Founders ,” addressed the economics.

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20 Reasons Why You Need a Business Plan

Growthink Blog

A formal business plan is the basis for financing proposals. In this way, it allows you to clearly see whether you have achieved your strategic, financing, and operational goals (and why you have or have not). 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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Why Finders Are Losers

The Startup Lawyer

Most importantly, using an unregistered broker-dealer can, at a minimum, jeopardize your startup’s private placement exemptions. Even if these finders deliver an investor, the investor isn’t hip to investing in startups and ends up asking for crazy investor-favorable terms that could will screw up a future financing.

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Do I need a PPM for my startup’s financing?

Austin Startup

PPM stands for “Private Placement Memorandum.” You can think of it as the private company equivalent of an S-1 , the long disclosure document that companies produce when going IPO. In healthcare, energy, and a whole host of other industries, using PPMs in private fundraising is very common.

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