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Dealing with Investors

Many people start a business with visions of investors rushing to put money into their company. A few find investors who actually do invest. But the road from sitting around the kitchen table thinking great business thoughts and seeing $XX,000,000 wire transferred into your company’s bank account is rocky and fraught with frustration.

Here’s a very quick and simplified typical progression: Start business, draft business plan, present plan to various investors, get rejected, re-write business plan, run out of money, find angel investor, re-write business plan, find lead investor, spend three months and kill large tracks of forest writing up “Series A” deal, lose lead investor, find new lead investor, re-write deal for smaller amounts, find secondary investors, reconsider whether you really want outside funding, close deal.

Where to go from here ...

Click here for a discussion of some of the terms encountered during the course of a typical Venture Capital deal