Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer & Founder of HubSpot wrote a blog post where he reflected his experience to produce 9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital.
I thought I would take a slightly different approach and rewrite these relative to my experience at the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board. At ASSOB we are a step or two before Venture Capitalists get involved. Some do in some matters but it is mostly Private Equity investors.
Was “Australia Day” here yesterday and I got thinking about how so many ventures are dependant upon funding from friends, family and fans to get to the next level.
Many people say friends, family and fools.
Which got me thinking. How can someone with a business opportunity needing early stage funding from private equity or investors prepare themselves better. On my “Capital Underdog” Blog I added a new entry which I believe should be invaluable for someone seeking to raise funds from friends, family and fans.
At ASSOB where I spend my working day I sit on both the Admissions Committee and the Listing Committee. Applications received for Capital Raising often need improvements and over the years I have broken the areas that need improvement in to 16 different areas.
In itself sourcing fabrics for films in India is a narrow niche but as you can see from the rich variety of products there are hundreds of sub niches. If you want to build a social marketing profile for yourself then the narrower the better but it has to be wide enough to have a few thousand raving fans.
As you can see in her IMDB entry she has worked with costumes in films like The Kite Runner, The Last Samurai, Kate and Leopold, Narnia and many others.
Gold Coast Disc Copy, am Australian CD and DVD Duplication business has added another service to what they offer their clients.
If you have your seminar on DVD why not lift the audio tracks from the DVD’s and either include the audio MP3’s as a bonus or sell them or stream them. They can just add them to their iTunes library and they have your seminar on the go.
Found this video while transferring some old films to DVD. What a great team we were in Singapore. Dona, Hytati, Chat, Stephen plus a visit from Brian Olorenshaw.
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