Debt financing
Banks can provide you with a loan or line of credit that comes with a repayment schedule and an interest rate.
Grants
There are also numerous state, regional and minority grant opportunities available.
Equity Financing
Private or “institutional” investors in exchange for an equity ownership stake.
Venture Capitalists
Funding pros are serious players in the investing world who look to get their money and profits out as quickly as possible.
Strategic Investors
Equity financiers who get their name because they come from within the industry you are targeting and find what you’re selling to be “strategic” for their business objectives (such as somehow complementing or enabling the products or services they sell).
Common reasons for startup failures
Yours Problems & Solutions
Idea validation
Commitment
Start small, scale afterwards
Get help from mentors
Organic growth
Measure progress
Take risks
Experiment
Opportunistic to strategic
narrow your market
targeted customer segments
identify areas with the most demand, growth and profitability
3M model
Projects to products
Ownership to partnership
People to process
Relationships to brands
OMC Rule
no sound-alikess
name should tell a story
make it personal
not too practical
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