Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Start Ups: How is Your Financing Going (or Not)?

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Every day, our company  receives calls and emails from companies seeking investment. The large ones we route to our investment banking pr...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Entrepreneurial Liars and Cheats

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Many entrepreneurs are dismayed by the slow pace of due diligence checks by potential investors. How many interviews, how many financial d...
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

High Conflict People and the Toxic Damage They Cause

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Do the following statements sound like anyone who makes you cringe, at work, in your neighborhood, in your extended family?  If so, you are...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Angel Investments over the Past Decade

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An excellent source of information about angel investments in the U.S. can be found at the website for University of New Hampshire's Pe...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Spot Liars and Frauds Before You Hire (or Date) Them

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For ten years, my favorite job as Compliance Officer of an Investment Bank was spotting liars. This meant figuring out which finance profess...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Five Questions Any Money Seeking Entrepreneur MUST Be Able to Answer Briefly and Compellingly

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Every day, we talk with entrepreneurs who wish to grow or start a business, with the help of other people's money (whether the sou...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Why No Term Sheets... at all? or "They Just Aren't Into You"

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Laura Emerson laura@starlightcapital.com March 24, 2013 Raising capital is hard, time consuming, expensive, and sometimes humb...
Monday, April 23, 2012

No Exit

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(Laura welcomes responses in the comment field beneath each blog entry). During 2000-2008, virtually every private company’s investme...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Easy, Free Due Diligence on Potential Service Providers, Clients, Employees

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If you are a “glass half-full” person.   Read this carefully.   Dishonest people can be charming, or evasive, or manipulative, but all of th...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

How Entrepreneurs Can Avoid a Financing Scam

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(I originally wrote this article for Entrepreneur Magazine, several years ago) “If it seems too good to be true…,” “If it walks like ...
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Step into the Shoes of an Investor Before You Issue a Private Placement

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Entrepreneurs raise money in various ways and from various sources.   One method frequently discussed is a Private Placement.   E ntrepreneu...

Do Due Diligence on Your Company Before Someone Else Does

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Savvy proprietors of businesses who have been waiting for the right time to sell, merge, or attract investors, do due diligence on their own...