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Preparing to Start a Company

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re going that route—here are a couple of things I would suggest: Have at least six months of personal expenses in the bank —and that’s only if you know you can at least get some angel capital based around your connections to investors, friends, family, etc. Build a following around what you’re doing.

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Fox Launchpad: When Startups Need Help Getting Started

Angel Capital Association

Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries. Immigration - No-fee immigration strategy consultation and flat-fee advice for a range of visa applications. Background Research - Complimentary intelligence on potential investors or business partners.

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Five Tips to Activate New Angel Investors

Angel Capital Association

Mirroring the entrepreneur training, SDAC provides investor training through an enhanced pitch competition run over a three-month series of events that culminate in a one-day conference, where a winner is awarded funds raised by the investors.

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IP Due Diligence for Startups

Angel Capital Association

It can also be your customer list, a price list, methods of manufacturing a product, taglines and sales pitches, suppliers for parts, and many other things. Every employee, consultant, and advisor must sign a Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement with the company.

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5 Mistakes Startups Cannot Afford Now

Angel Capital Association

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies Focusing on Anything but Your Runway. All those financial projections in your pitch decks were amusing optimism two months ago. Obsessively focus on extending available cash. Listen, everyone’s revenue curves are going to flatten.

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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

We consider other capital sources such as credit cards, friends/family capital and angel investors to generally be our competition, although we believe the structure of our terms makes more sense for all parties involved. We also utilize an HR consultant to stay on top of all things HR Quickbooks is our base for accounting.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ). From Beer and Pitch nights to Startup Hatch to Disrupting Law, student-led events have shown that students are really hungry for this stuff.