Are you desperate for venture capital funding of your own, but find it impossible to get one because you've ended up in the hellish nightmare called recession, with the monthly burn rate forcing you to shut down or proceed on "life-support"?
You can still extend your financing runway creatively TODAY - regardless if you're in the red or not.
There's nothing worse than having to fire one of your colleagues because you can't pay them. Or having to ask relatives to lend you their savings for you to tide over the crisis. Or worse yet, wind up your business.
Unfortunately millions of people have to unwillingly do these things every single day. Why?
Fund-raising from venture capitalists and angel investors is hell.
As you probably know, unless your best friend in the world is a VC partner, whom you happen to have embarrassing pictures of, fund-raising is likely to be a uphill climb. Passion, experience, real-world results are not qualifiers for introductions to VCs. An MBA from Stanford / Harvard Business school with 20 board members who know Jack Welch personally, with an extremely complicated idea that has never been built, are preferred
Even though there are 5,300 mergers and acquisitions per year in the technology sector, many for less than several million, the preferred "out" is to go public. Investing small sums that return 10 times the investment does not make sense when a VC can put in $100M in a mezzanine-financing round and earn $20M. Of course, you may add that with bigger fund amounts they need larger deal flow, but really, is a $1B fund going to generate the same as a fund that has $100M.in final net return? Sure they get the 2% management fee per year, but based on historical records, deal funding less than $5M per deal generates a higher return rate than the $100M per deal investment.
To make a long story short they ran into brick walls wherever they went. VCs would not return their emails. Their calls went unanswered. The factory was in danger of closing down and staff was not getting paid. To say that they were desperate would be an understatement. The company was in red.
Raising capital is by far the most unpleasant task an entrepreneur will ever have to perform.
It was awful!
Fighting the VCs was futile. Once a company has been rejected by a VC, word spreads around to the entire VC community like wildfire.
I asked them to retouch their presentation. Rehearse their pitch. Rethink their vision. None of them worked. The company was dying. Scary AND true.
I searched the Internet at every available moment looking for ways to secure venture capital. I began to research how elite and serial entrepreneurs were launching their startups without outside capital.
I ordered access to web sites. I got free lists of so-called venture capital firms and angel groups.
And I didn't find ANYTHING that actually worked.
PROBLEM #1- The free lists of venture capital lists are often old and outdated. They may have 100 groups listed, and only 1 of those banks is valid. The truth of the matter is that even if they do, its an old boys' network, and transactions are relationship based.
PROBLEM #2 - This problem of capital scarcity for early stage companies is so prevalent that you may have begun to notice that there are literally thousands of people in the business of "helping" entrepreneurs raise money. At least that's what they lead you to believe. They have taken their cue from the Gold Rush when the truly crafty business-people made money not from prospecting but by selling shovels to the prospectors. Likewise, today's money-raising services have found a low risk means to separate the cash-starved entrepreneur from any money he or she may have left. They do so in many ways:
* Matching Services: We'll match your project with one of our many accredited angel investors. Call now! Operators are standing by! Just $199 to register.
* Business Plan Services: We'll write a business plan for you which will attract funding. Only $999.
* Finders: I can help you raise money for a fee…and, by the way, I require a retainer up-front.
* Money-Raising Bootcamps: Attend our weekend bootcamp for $1,195, and you'll discover that it's not what you know but who you know that counts when it comes to raising money.
My two personal favorites are:
* Online Business Plan Repositories: Post your b-plan on our site for 6 months. Only $59.
* Venture Capital Directories: VC's are waiting to fund you! For just $49 you can buy our CD directory with 12,952,734 venture capital firms listed on it. (How these can sell in the age of Internet search engines is beyond me. PT Barnum was correct about a sucker being "born every minute".)
PROBLEM #3 - Based on the fact that your typical early stage venture capital firm invests in only one company out of every 500 business plans it reviews, your odds of succeeding are only 1:500. (If you are pursuing angel investors your odds improve to maybe 1:200, although no one knows the numbers for certain.)
in about 50% of instances where an early stage company actually succeeds in raising venture capital, the founder is fired within the first year and kisses most of his or her stock good-bye. Even the Wall Street Journal pointed this out in a article by Barnaby Federer from 09/30/02:
them after a few drinks, they'll say, 'We replace the CEO' ",
he said. And that, he indicated, does not vary
with the economic climate.
So your odds of being a successful venture capital-backed founder/CEO are actually only 1:1000.
With all the half-baked solutions floating around I decided to do my own investigative work. And after literally 18 MONTHS of research I found the solution to extending the financing runway of startups.
Here's what typically happens when a company needs to chase outside capital in order to commence or expand operations. After about 6 months one of three things occurs:1. The lucky 1 in 500 finds investors.
2. Most die on the vine. In many cases, the wannabe entrepreneur simply abandons the project and moves on to something else. (As the joke goes, "That's why God created 'jobs' ".)
3. A savvy and tenacious tiny minority of entrepreneurs finally gets mad at having wasted so much time. Then it begins to figure out a creative way around the funding problem by focusing on creating cashflow with the resources and opportunities at hand, instead of continuing the futile quest for outside capital.
Necessity truly is the Mother of Invention.
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What I'm offering on this site is a "Get-out-of-Fund-raising-jail" free card.
An opportunity to get out of the vicious cycle of perpetually fund-raising.
My Report - How to Creatively Fund your Startup - Beat the Odds on Fund-raising from VCs - is the key to beating the system, without having to play any more games. This report is short - only 12 pages long.
This report is broken down into several parts.
- First, it gives you exact details on whether you should be approaching a venture capitalist in the first place. Before embarking on a campaign to raise Venture capital funding, you Should Look at yourself objectively and honestly to determine if you even qualify. Most people don't stop to do this.
- Since the vast majority of venture capital hunters don't qualify, you will, in most cases, end up wasting 6 to 12 months of your life writing a business plan which will never be read and doing "dog & pony" shows for audiences who are at best only mildly curious or at worst engaged in "brainsucking" you for ideas.
- Venture capitalists, like winning horse track gamblers, bet on the jockey not on the horse.
- Industry "stars" qualify for venture capital. This means someone who has already taken a start-up from zero to 50 million in sales or better. So if you're counted amongst the stars in your industry, you stand a good chance of attracting venture capital provided your current deal has the following elements:
- at least 2 other senior executives with experience in wildly successful companies,
- a proprietary technology in a sector currently considered hot by the venture capital industry,
- a top-notch technical team,
- a target market at least one billion dollars in size,
- a minimum of one year of rising sales to blue chip customers.
It you don't meet the above criteria venture capital funding won't happen.
Are you starting to get frustrated by the Venture Capital Catch 22?
What is the venture capital catch-22? Well, startups need venture capital to start, but venture capitalists and angel investors only fund companies which already have traction (i.e., sales). This is one big reason why no one is funding you. In addition, there are multiple pitfalls?
- How do you talk to a VC?
- How do you manage the first meeting?
- How do you create materials that best answer their questions?
- What's motivating your VC?
Yes, this report is short. But it's concise.
It contains resources that I've actually used.
You'll find contact information for all the resources, including website email addresses. Since I don't believe in selling half-baked solutions, if a venture capitalist or angel investor doesn't match my stringent set of guidelines, I don't recommend them. You can get mediocre everywhere else.
This report is a product of my research. And since I'm still helping startups fund-raise I was able to go through all the motions the same way that you will. I have just as much as a vested interest in this information as you do.
But more importantly this report tells you what to expect when pitching to the VC. There will be no surprises or embarrassing situations because I've done all the legwork for you. What you'll find is 100% user-friendly information.
Frequently Asked Question... But what if these venture capitalists aren't located in my immediate area?
The fact of the matter is there are only a handful of venture capitalist that you want to be on your board, OR give you hassles about your business. All venture capitalists claim they value-add but few actually do. The venture capitalists or angels I provide will work with you through almost any challenged situation, through thick and thin.
But if you're like me and you don't want to sit through rejection after rejection, the report will help you save face and get what you need. Yes, it's nice to have a VC close to home. But often times it's just not possible. My report gives you real alternatives, regardless of your situation.
But this is a big 'maybe.' And it may require you to sit through a lot of embarrassing"No's" just to end up back at Square 1. If you don't mind making the effort, then by all means try your luck.
These venture capitalists are the exceptions- NOT the rules.
The second part of the report offers you a way out of venture capital hell. Dozens and dozens of financing strategies and tactics used by fast growth startups to launch.
If we look at the companies which qualify for those annual lists of the fastest growing companies, we see that over 95% were unfunded at start-up beyond a nominal injection of the entrepreneur's own money (in most cases, less than $10k). Most didn't even have a business plan. Why did this minority of unfunded entrepreneurs succeed while most start-ups seeking capital die on the vine or morph into something completely different—that is, something more do-able after 6 months?
Most Frequently Asked Question... But what if my business is not suitable for venture capitalists?
To answer this question, let me use an analogy. Think of entrepreneurs as being a bit like chefs. Some chefs are very rigid in their style requiring that a specific list of ingredients be delivered to them before they can begin cooking. This rigidity is fine so long as you are not too hungry and can wait for the required ingredients to arrive. However, if you are hungry now and lack the cash to buy more groceries, you will need to be flexible and work with what you have.
Other chefs, the more flexible and entrepreneurial ones, will not wait for someone else to deliver a bag of groceries to them, but will instead immediately begin to search the pantry, refrigerator, and vegetable garden for what's available. They then use the items at hand to create a feast.
Real Entrepreneurship is About Cashflow Creation
It's all about positive cashflow. If you can make it happen, you get respect and investors to fund you so that you can make even more.
At some point in the mid-1990s real entrepreneurship became subverted into merely writing a business plan, developing a Powerpoint presentation, scripting an "elevator pitch", and then pestering skeptical strangers for money. With the entrepreneurial bar thus lowered almost to the ground, seemingly everyone declared themselves an "entrepreneur" and tried to hop aboard the dotcom express.
However, real entrepreneurship is not about these things at all. It's about making cashflow happen now. This report illustrates dozens financing strategies and tactics used by fast growth startups and elite CEOs to launch, teaching you the startup secrets of both serial and Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies List entrepreneurs.
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Other sites are charging $29.95 to $599.99 for their resources. Many of them are selling the same misguided and non-working list of 100+ venture capitalists. Other sites make you subscribe to receive free reports in exchange for that free list of 100+ investors. Then they'll send you dozens and dozens of e-mails advertising services. (I still can't get off that list!)For $24.95 you will enjoy the following benefits:
- It will teach you who are the venture capitalists to approach, how to identify them and how to pitch to them.
- It will teach you to think like a savvy veteran entrepreneur who focusses on cashflow creation rather than on begging for money from strangers.
- It can drastically reduce the amount of capital needed to launch.
- It can help a company begin to generate cashflow before any funding occurs.
- In some cases, it can eliminate altogether the need for outside capital.
And you have my personal 90 day guarantee that if you do not get a term sheet or cashflow creation of $5000 worth in value, I will promptly refund your payment. That's how truly confident I am. (You can't lose!)
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I look forward to helping you get the Series A funding you so desperately want and need.
Warmest regards,
Tan Yinglan
Author, How to Creatively Fund your Startup - Beat the Odds on Fund-raising from VCs
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I am an easy-to-find online entrepreneur.
I simply want to help people with my specialized knowledge. I completely understand how frustrating it can be to fund-raise. Raising capital is by far the most unpleasant task an entrepreneur will ever have to perform. I know that what I'm selling here will help you tremendously.
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