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	<title>Comments on: How to Present at Big Meetings without Going Down a Rat Hole</title>
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		<title>By: Raising Venture Capital and Angel Investment Funding Can Only Be Done by You</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raising Venture Capital and Angel Investment Funding Can Only Be Done by You</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] are enough high quality resources out there on raising venture capital and angel investment. And there are some [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Weekly Biz Buzz #13 Haiti, Present Better at Meetings, Improve Conversion Rates</title>
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		<dc:creator>Weekly Biz Buzz #13 Haiti, Present Better at Meetings, Improve Conversion Rates</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Mark Suster, wrote a blog post with the title, How to Present at Big Meetings without Going Down a Rat Hole, which I highly recommend anyone reading this to read [...]</description>
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		<title>By: DC</title>
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		<dc:creator>DC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How flexible are VC&#039;s with their exit strategy? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. &lt;br&gt;Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &quot;no cap&quot; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, - starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.&lt;br&gt;Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</description>
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<p>I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. <br />Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &#8220;no cap&#8221; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, &#8211; starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.<br />Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</p>
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		<title>By: DC</title>
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		<dc:creator>DC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How flexible are VC&#039;s with their exit strategy? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. &lt;br&gt;Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &quot;no cap&quot; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, - starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.&lt;br&gt;Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</description>
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<p>I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. <br />Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &#8220;no cap&#8221; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, &#8211; starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.<br />Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</p>
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		<title>By: DC</title>
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		<dc:creator>DC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How flexible are VC&#039;s with their exit strategy? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. &lt;br&gt;Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &quot;no cap&quot; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, - starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.&lt;br&gt;Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How flexible are VC&#39;s with their exit strategy? </p>
<p>I have a medical technology that has a huge target market that is not being met up to this point. I have no immediate (exact similar) competitors and those who are have a disadvantage to my technology. My technology is also disruptive. <br />Without going too much into detail on here, I am willing to offer a &#8220;no cap&#8221; collateral towards investment funds, that can generate over $36 million in a 5 year period. This towards a total investment of $5 million in stages over a 2 year period against milestones, &#8211; starting with $500,000 seed and an additional $2 mil within the first year. The $36m is a projection with slow growth estimate to avoid exaggerated amounts. In the final year I have included only half of maximum capacity, showing how much revenue potential the collateral has. There is no revenue in the first (est) 15 months. In fact, the collateral itself can cover the second years funding; the investor is therefore investing only half of the required funds towards a huge return.<br />Would investors be interested in this format or am I off the chart?</p>
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		<title>By: Ann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently attended a VC event in New York that had quite a few well-known VC groups accessible for entrepreneurs to approach. However, one had to wonder why the word &quot;risk capital&quot; was used by these investment groups. Every single VC we approached had a demand of minimum existing revenue flow of at least $3 million before they would be willing to invest into any business... Even Angel investors had this demand. It didn&#039;t matter what business you were in, we were all met with this requirement. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How is this &#039;risk capital&#039; or &#039;start-up capital&#039;? With existing revenue of $3 million, why would a company need VC funding when most investment funds seems to be on the lower end? These VC&#039;s had  too stringent requirements. If entrepreneurs can meet these requirements, they have a better deal approaching their bank for loans without any need to give stock or shares to a VC.  If VC&#039;s are that worried that an entrepreneur is incapable of bringing a new start-up to success, would it not be better they get involved in the management of the company and aid to bring it to success?&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;I think this can be a damaging trend for VC&#039;s to follow who look for great business potentials. What will eventually happen is that rumors will spread among entrepreneurs that VC&#039;s are too demanding and that it&#039;s pointless to seek VC capital. VC&#039;s will have less and less good projects presented to them for investment and will eventually lose a chance to make profits for themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently attended a VC event in New York that had quite a few well-known VC groups accessible for entrepreneurs to approach. However, one had to wonder why the word &#8220;risk capital&#8221; was used by these investment groups. Every single VC we approached had a demand of minimum existing revenue flow of at least $3 million before they would be willing to invest into any business&#8230; Even Angel investors had this demand. It didn&#39;t matter what business you were in, we were all met with this requirement. </p>
<p>How is this &#39;risk capital&#39; or &#39;start-up capital&#39;? With existing revenue of $3 million, why would a company need VC funding when most investment funds seems to be on the lower end? These VC&#39;s had  too stringent requirements. If entrepreneurs can meet these requirements, they have a better deal approaching their bank for loans without any need to give stock or shares to a VC.  If VC&#39;s are that worried that an entrepreneur is incapable of bringing a new start-up to success, would it not be better they get involved in the management of the company and aid to bring it to success?</p>
<p>I think this can be a damaging trend for VC&#39;s to follow who look for great business potentials. What will eventually happen is that rumors will spread among entrepreneurs that VC&#39;s are too demanding and that it&#39;s pointless to seek VC capital. VC&#39;s will have less and less good projects presented to them for investment and will eventually lose a chance to make profits for themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: Ann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently attended a VC event in New York that had quite a few well-known VC groups accessible for entrepreneurs to approach. However, one had to wonder why the word &quot;risk capital&quot; was used by these investment groups. Every single VC we approached had a demand of minimum existing revenue flow of at least $3 million before they would be willing to invest into any business... Even Angel investors had this demand. It didn&#039;t matter what business you were in, we were all met with this requirement. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How is this &#039;risk capital&#039; or &#039;start-up capital&#039;? With existing revenue of $3 million, why would a company need VC funding when most investment funds seems to be on the lower end? These VC&#039;s had  too stringent requirements. If entrepreneurs can meet these requirements, they have a better deal approaching their bank for loans without any need to give stock or shares to a VC.  If VC&#039;s are that worried that an entrepreneur is incapable of bringing a new start-up to success, would it not be better they get involved in the management of the company and aid to bring it to success?&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;I think this can be a damaging trend for VC&#039;s to follow who look for great business potentials. What will eventually happen is that rumors will spread among entrepreneurs that VC&#039;s are too demanding and that it&#039;s pointless to seek VC capital. VC&#039;s will have less and less good projects presented to them for investment and will eventually lose a chance to make profits for themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently attended a VC event in New York that had quite a few well-known VC groups accessible for entrepreneurs to approach. However, one had to wonder why the word &#8220;risk capital&#8221; was used by these investment groups. Every single VC we approached had a demand of minimum existing revenue flow of at least $3 million before they would be willing to invest into any business&#8230; Even Angel investors had this demand. It didn&#39;t matter what business you were in, we were all met with this requirement. </p>
<p>How is this &#39;risk capital&#39; or &#39;start-up capital&#39;? With existing revenue of $3 million, why would a company need VC funding when most investment funds seems to be on the lower end? These VC&#39;s had  too stringent requirements. If entrepreneurs can meet these requirements, they have a better deal approaching their bank for loans without any need to give stock or shares to a VC.  If VC&#39;s are that worried that an entrepreneur is incapable of bringing a new start-up to success, would it not be better they get involved in the management of the company and aid to bring it to success?</p>
<p>I think this can be a damaging trend for VC&#39;s to follow who look for great business potentials. What will eventually happen is that rumors will spread among entrepreneurs that VC&#39;s are too demanding and that it&#39;s pointless to seek VC capital. VC&#39;s will have less and less good projects presented to them for investment and will eventually lose a chance to make profits for themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For the one partner you can&#039;t convince.. you can always put them in check with a line like this &quot; I know where you live!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the one partner you can&#39;t convince.. you can always put them in check with a line like this &#8221; I know where you live!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: facundo</title>
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		<dc:creator>facundo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent resource Mark. It really got me thinking regarding the concept of &quot;sponsor&quot; or &quot;host&quot; and it really applies to any meeting in which ones is asked to address an audience. Food for thought, congrats on a great article</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent resource Mark. It really got me thinking regarding the concept of &#8220;sponsor&#8221; or &#8220;host&#8221; and it really applies to any meeting in which ones is asked to address an audience. Food for thought, congrats on a great article</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For the one partner you can&#039;t convince.. you can always put them in check with a line like this &quot; I know where you live!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the one partner you can&#39;t convince.. you can always put them in check with a line like this &#8221; I know where you live!&#8221;</p>
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