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How to Creatively Finance Your Startup (CFS) is a simple system to get you more organized, effective and productive in ensuring that there is cash in your bank.
How to Creatively Finance Your Startup (CFS) takes some of the best aspects of a few popular bootstrapping and fund-raising systems and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more.
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Reader testimonial: “I had always had trouble trying to bootstrap and find capital - and the right set of investors for my company, but most advice seemed too intensive to realistically implement. CFS and its simplicity make perfect sense to me.” Craig
What is CFS?
Simply put,CFS teaches you:
1. The key principles needed to be productive, organized, and simplified to stay cash-flow positive… and no more than that.
2. How to implement these key principles … tips on executing flawlessly.
3. How to organize these principles into a simple system that will keep your financial pulse healthy.
4. How to simplify what you need to do.
Why buy the e-book?
A number of reasons:
1. It’s handy. All the articles are gathered in one easy-to-read e-book, making it easy to print stuff out, read it on any computer, or take it with you.
2. There’s more material. This ebook includes the essential productivity concepts written about here on Way Of The VC, and more, from an FAQ to a practical application of CFS in my everyday life to resources to forms and more. More on this stuff below.
3. Forms. I decided to give a sample of how you could set up CFS with some simple forms. Of course, CFS is flexible … you don’t need to use these forms, but I thought they’d be useful.
4. Resources. Links to articles and tools are available in the e-book.
5. FAQ. A number of readers had questions/comments about CFS that I thought I’d answer in the e-book. I think this will be a useful feature.
6. Snazzy new look. The e-book was designed by my new designer, and he did a great job.
Pricing: To keep the book affordable, I’m pricing it at $9.50 … less than $10 for something that can improve your life right away … and again, with author tech support! :)
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Reader testimonial: “I’d say that the CFS system is a safe first step. The beauty is, of course, that it needn’t be just a first step: it works as it is and some people don’t need to go any further.” Jeff
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. Who stands the best chance of getting venture capital?
3. Turning the Tables
4. A Few Thoughts, Pre‐Pitch…
5. Four Steps to a Great Pitch:
6. The First Meeting
7. Your Competition: Know It Cold
8. Ten Tips to Finetune the Pitch
9. How to Pitch to Angels
10. How to Pitch to VCs
11. How to Pitch to the Media
12. Cashflow Generation
13. 10 ways for a startup to improve the positive side of the cash flow equation
14. 7 ways to fund your business:
15. What you should know about business factoring
16. Procedures to increase cashflow.
17. Step 1. Evaluate your business concept and organization as an opportunity: its strengths and limits will help define your potential capital sources.
18. Step 2. Determine how much money you will need soon (and later)?
19. Step 3. Realize the likely type(s) and level of financing your start-up will attract.
20. Step 4. Complete the management team.
21. Step 5. Prepare for fundraising: refine the business idea; write the Business Plan and Executive Summary.
22. Step 6. Evaluate & confirm the legal issues.
23. Step 7. Make contacts; find lead investor(s).
24. Step 8. Begin due diligence.
25. Step 9. Close financing -- in stages if needed.
26. Step 10. Follow the Business Plan, as it continually changes.
27. Think out of the box
28. Maintain positive cashflow
29. 10 ways for a startup to improve the positive side of the cash flow equation
30. Our Bottom Line
31. Minimizing start up costs.
32. Additional startup financing tools
33. Conclusion. The First Key:Understanding the Process
34. The Second Key: Writing the Business Plan
35. The Third Key: Preparing the Financials
36. Beyond the Three Keys
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