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How I
Learned to
Stop
Waiting for Investors and Start Building Companies
Whenever
capital tightens up, the Smart Startup Guide becomes a hot seller. It's
been this way since 1996. Welcome capital seeker, you have come to the
solution.
How to
Finance Your Startup in a Recession
Raising
capital is by far the most unpleasant task an entrepreneur
will ever have to perform, so allow me to share the big secret with you
on how to get it. All investors, from angels to venture
capitalists, want to back a sure thing or the next best thing to it.
The next best thing is a company with traction (i.e., actual sales to
bona fide customers). Oftentimes, this means that the startup employs a
transitional business model which sells only a part of or a service
related to the main concept.
No one reads business plans and no one takes you seriously if that's
all you have to show.
So how do you start to get traction? Well, savvy entrepreneurs like the
ones on the annual lists of fastest growing companies tend to know, and
that's what the Smart Startup Guide teaches you.
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The object of education is not knowledge, it's action.
- Thomas Kempie
The Smart Startup Guide teaches
you how to get going immediately.
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The
Free Stuff
First, this site offers for free
most of the information other sites attempt to nickle and dime you to
death over:
venture
capital documentation, business plan and executive summary samples,
directories
of venture capital firms, directories of angel investor groups, and
lots more.
It’s all here and for free.
The site also offers a wealth of free yet
sound
advice on determining whether or not you fit venture capital and angel
investor
investment criteria, how to find and approach investors, and finally
how to
negotiate from a position of power rather than of desperation.
The
Premium Stuff
Second, for those of you
who have already grown weary of pounding the pavement looking for
investors, we
offer our premium
content, the Smart
Startup Guide,
which teaches you how the tiny minority of
truly savvy entrepreneurs by-passes the wretched game
of chasing
capital and moves
straight to cashflow. The Guide is a ten-year long labor of
love which
explains how the truly great entrepreneurs start without outside
capital.
As
with all good things in life, the Guide
costs money. As the saying
goes,
you get what you pay for. However, compare its
price with the amount of time you have already lost or stand to lose
writing pointless
business
plans and chasing uninterested
investors. Only about one in every 500 entrepreneurs
chasing
capital
attracts
any. The other 499 entrepreneurs simply end up wasting six to eighteen
months of their
lives in a futile quest.
How
much is just one month of your time worth in comparison
to the Guide, let alone 6 to 18 months?
Memorize this distinction:
Savvy entrepreneurs know how to create cash.
Wannabes wait
for
someone to give them
cash.
In a nutshell, the Guide
teaches you how to create the
cash which will both start your business and get you taken
seriously by investors later on. Even better, some entrepreneurs
realize after using the Guide
that they won't need investors at all.
Good or good?
Pay
Special Attention Here
If there is one lesson that I
want you to
leave this site with, it's this: a nicely polished professional
business plan by itself, plus $3, is worth a grande latte at
Starbucks. Investors
don't care about
your business plan, they want to see traction first.
A
VC Testimonial
Peter,
I bought the Smart
Startup Guide
a few months ago.
I have been a VC with a top firm, and a successful software
entrepreneur. Your book is a service to entrepreneurs. I
found myself in repeated agreement with you. I too came to
view the capital-chasing process as a stupendous waste of time
for 99.9999% of startups.
The business press has glamorized
venture capital and created a whole package of myths around what
is a very tough reality. Most entrepreneurs have no
understanding that to secure financing they are making VCs the
owners and themselves the paid help, whatever percentage of the
company the VCs get.
And few capital seekers have a true
understanding of "standard" VC deal terms. Unfortunately
the VC firms have huge PR firms and it is only the happy-spin
story that ever gets told. Few horror stories make it to
the press.
Keep up the good work!
Anon Venture Capitalist
The Smart Startup Guide
teaches
you how to get your venture off the ground with little or no outside
money. It does so by revealing the financing strategies used by
entrepreneurial greats when investors weren't available. Ironically,
while the Guide tries to
dissuade you from using outside money, the
application of its strategies will actually make your venture all the
more
attractive to venture capitalists and angel investors.
Wil
Schroter, Founder GoBigNetwork
The Smart Startup Guide
is the best tool I've found yet for financing a new business!
Catherine Austin Fitts, President of Solari, Inc., MBA (Wharton)
The Smart Startup Guide
has been an invaluable resource to me during the launch of MyNuMo.
It perfectly illustrates hard learned lessons that
entrepreneurs
would be well advised to pay attention to. In the midst of
all
the misinformation and hucksterism around starting a company the SSG is
a valuable resource you should have if you are running or working at a
startup company.
William Volk, CEO & founder www.mynumo.com
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