How To Finance a High-Tech Start-Up
Finance is an intelligent guide to obtaining funding for your high-tech firm created and produced by industry-veteran Ted Finch, former VP of Marketing at Metrowerks, division head at Motorola and founder of www.chanimal.com. Obtain your copy of the Special Edition FREE with your purchase of any item from this site. The video runs over 45 minutes and covers:
Introduction by Ted Finch, producer of How to Finance a High-Tech Start-Up and founder of Chanimal Marketing.
Funding Stages. Learn the different stages of funding, the typical amounts, and the expectations during each stage.
Business Plan. You’ll hear VC’s explain exactly what they do and do not want to see within this document - right down to number of pages, format and content.
Investment Criteria. What is the exact criterial that investors look for prior to signing a check?.
Management Team. You’ll hear consistently from investors that the management team is the most important determinate for investing in a start-up.
Marketing. Learn why it’s important to hire the marketing folks first and validate your market prior to developing a product.
Screening Investors. Understand why and how you can interview and screen potential investors.
Selecting Investors. The final selection is like a marriage--learn the telltale signs for a good, positive relationship.
Term Sheet. Find out what to include and what to watch out for.
Time Frames. How long will it take to raise angel seed capital, first round funding, 504b funding?
Alternative Funding. Find out alternatives to funding that you may not have heard of but could be worth a try.
Parting Comments. VC’s, Angels and top CEO’s give you their last bit of advice to help you succeed in this process.
And much more!
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