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An Investor’s Take on SaaS KPIs Essential for Investment-Worthy Startups
If you sat down with an investor today, do you know what kind of metrics and KPIs they would require to gauge the health and potential of your SaaS business? Seeing things from an investor’s...
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The Dos and Don’ts of Approaching an Investor
Founders Seeking Funding… hear this. As far as investors are concerned… you are simply a bus. If an investor misses a chance to invest in you, even if you’re a super cool bus… there will be another bus...
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How to Prepare for the Rigors of Due Diligence
Be ready to answer questions before they are asked. So, you’re ready to talk to investors about your fast-growing startup and to begin the process of attracting seed capital to scale up the business...
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Four Ways Gender Diversity Improves Your Business
There are many factors that determine whether a new company will be successful: the core product idea, the management team, the go-to-market plan. At Golden Seeds, we believe very strongly that gender...
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Employers and Employees Should Consider Their Stock Options
One of the biggest challenges facing early-stage companies is attracting and retaining talent. Companies at the beginning of their life-cycle usually don’t have endless sources of cash to provide...
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Act Local, Scale Global: Early Stage International Expansion as a Strategy...
It no longer matters how big or small a brand is; a startup’s success does not hinge solely on rate of innovation, but also on the speed at which it scales, especially for founders chasing the coveted...
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So What’s It Going to Cost: Legal Expenses for a Startup Business Raising...
For the past decade, a large number of startup businesses around the world have been formed, capitalized, successfully turned their thoughts into action, entered the public markets (or chosen to remain...
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Startups Gone Wrong: What Happens in a Liquidation and Who Gets Paid
It has been reported that 75% of startups with money raised from venture capital funds go bankrupt.[i] As one author stated “Venture capitalists who once considered it an unthinkable breach of decorum...
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Since When Doesn’t Profitability Matter?
There’s certainly enough lack-of-profitability blame to go around. There are the GPs and LPs who fancy themselves as Las Vegas high-rollers who take the capital and “let it ride.” Why not? They are in...
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Understanding Liquidation Preferences in Venture Financings
VCs won’t write checks to a startup company unless they are excited by its prospects. However, just because investors are enthusiastic about the company’s future doesn’t mean that they don’t also...
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Record $7.3 Billion Year for Canadian Venture Capital Investment
A Year in Review: 2019 Canadian Venture Capital Canadian venture capital investment was stronger than ever in 2019, with $7.3 billion invested across 598 rounds involving 493 companies. All four...
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How Venture Capital Is Changing to Adapt to the Global Innovation Landscape
We errantly believe the venture capital model was invented in Silicon Valley. Its roots are much older. The modern VC model was adapted from a bygone industry – whaling in New Bedford. As innovation...
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Guide to Raising Your First Round of Venture Capital
Clients frequently ask how to approach the first round of venture capital. As a recent outside general counsel to well over a hundred emerging growth private companies in the technology, life...
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How Hyper Local Startups Can Secure Investment from Their Neighborhood To...
Most people have heard of equity crowdfunding and the process where small to medium-sized businesses seeking investment can raise capital from accredited investors. Much is also written about...
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The Great Expansion of Venture Capital: A Ten-Year Progression
The 2010s was a decade that began in the shadow of the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, a time when uncertainty was high and confidence was low. As the 2010s progressed, the...
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Getting Funded Now – Building a Compelling Executive Summary to Hook The Most...
The private equity space is famous for getting “buried in the paper” with due diligence reports often running hundreds of pages. Yet a little-known fact is that Pareto’s Law (the 80/20 rule) is alive...
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Startups May Soon Get Help From an Unexpected Source: The SEC
Many businesses have struggled to maintain adequate working capital throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and startups are no exception. Although government stimulus packages have been implemented to help...
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What Playing Football Taught Me About Building a Successful Startup Business
I began playing football at age seven, a passion that carried me to a two-year collegiate career as a cornerback for Dartmouth College before I was permanently sidelined by injury. Today, as a venture...
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Understanding the Pre-Seed Ecosystem
As a founder or early-stage investor, you have probably heard the term pre-seed being tossed around. But what constitutes an official round before the seed stage and why is the pre-seed so important...
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Are Strategics the New Angels? – Leveraging Strategic Partners to Scale
Large multinational corporations often ask, “how do we best innovate and compete with the smaller, fast-moving and well-funded startups…” At the same time, startups are desperately trying to figure out...
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