Archive for the 'Finance & funding' Category

Sale Forecasts – How/ Como ?

Monday, March 7th, 2011

I mean, tell me how do you arrive at your sales forecasts for a high tech industry business ? If your product is new, no one knows about, there is no current market, no history data to back you up, no customer analytics information, nothing. How do you do your forecasts ? Of course you [...]

What is Dilution ?

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

As entrepreneurs raise money from investors, they see a significant drop in % of their equity stake in the company, which is technically called “dilution”. It is very important to understand this concept when looking for investments. This video explains the concept in 7 minutes

Executive summary essentials !

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

This is the first and possibly the ONLY OPPORTUNITY to impress an investor. You have to make it work !!! I am an investor and have been working with investors and trust me this filtering takes around 60 seconds at the max. Ideally an Executive Summary should be delivered including the following points. The business [...]

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