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One-Page Executive Summary for Finding Investors - Updated and Simplified
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The 1-Page Executive Summary, or, 1-pager, is an acceptable starting point with potential investors. Although there are many versions of a 1-pager, this is one of my favorite one-pager formats.
1. The Grab: Why is this idea or business worth an investors' attention?
2. The Problem: What big and important problem are you solving? Describe the enormous pain in detail.
3. The Solution: What specifically are you offering to whom? Software, hardware, service, a combination? What you have, or what you do, that solves the problem you’ve identified.
4. The Opportunity: Describe the market size, growth, characteristics, etc.
5. Your Competitive Advantage: Who is your competition and how will you be better?
6. The Model: How specifically are you going to generate revenues, and from whom? Why is your model leverageable and scalable?
7. The Team: Who is going to help you implement your solution?
8. The Promise: How are you going to make us BOTH a boatload of money?
Eventually want your 1-pager to be one page and properly designed for maximum impact. In the beginning just focus on getting your thoughts into some form of document for meaningful discussions.
If you want the a more detailed explanation of the the 1-pager, visit How Entrepreneurs Create a One-Page Executive Summary for Finding Angel Investors, TaskRabbit One-Pager, $38 Million Funding Success Story - Find Angel Funding & Venture Capital for Business Startups, Entrepreneurs, & First Time Founders – Episode 6 - https://rencarlton.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-entrepreneurs-create-one-page.html
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Soft vs. Hard Launches, Varsity Gems Upcoming launch, Business Startup Challenges, and More!
Ren Carlton and Thomas Coke discuss soft versus hard launches, Varsity Gems upcoming hard launch, business startup challenges, and more!
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Ren Carlton, Thomas Coke, and Scott Whitfield discuss the preparing for fundraising for Spiritz of America, previously Alcohol of the month
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What do you like? What don't you like? We want your thoughts!
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Angel Investing – Entrepreneurs, Founders, Business Startups, Early-Stage Businesses, Lead Investors, Making Your First Angel Investments - Series 2, Episode 1
I look for angel investments that have the potential to produce a 10x return on my investment in 5 years. Startup investing is one of the more risky investment categories. Therefore, you should expect these businesses to have the possibility of doing well. If you invest in 10 businesses, and nine of them fail, the remaining business needs to give you a 10x return just to break even. Ideally, you will do better than that and enjoy healthy returns.
Hansen’s Fruit and Vegetable Juices started as a family business in 1935. Decades later, the company was acquired for $14.5 million in 1992. In 1997, it was already listed on the public stock exchange as a NASDAQ small cap. This is when they first entered the energy drink market. In 2002, they made a slight modification that changed the energy market. They started selling energy drinks in a large can.
This energy drink, “Monster” launched in April 2002. In 2003, their sales passed the $100 million dollar mark. Sales were $98 million in 2002, in 2018, they had $3.8 billion in sales. $3.5 billion of its $3.8 billion in sales were from the Monster line of drinks.
If you invested $10,000 in Hansen, now renamed Monster Beverage Corp, in 2002, your investment would have been worth over $800,000 by 2007. That is over an 80x return on investment in five years for a publicly traded company. Imagine what returns can be achieved from startup investing.
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Find Angel Funding & Venture Capital for Business Startups, Entrepreneurs, & First Time Founders – Episode 12
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Most startups need funding at some point. Once you have the addressed all of the items in the previous episodes, it is time to build your list of potential investors and start the conversations. They can be friends, family, social network, social media contacts, work colleagues, people in the business industry, etc. Try to put together a list of at least one hundred people. A list of one hundred potential investors may seems like a lot, but the more people you have on the list, the better your chances are of success.
The next step is to talk to people on your list about funding your business. If you want to pitch investors properly, I suggest you do it in a soft, but direct manner. I typically kick off the conversation on a light note. Something along the lines of, “I am starting this business project,” or “I am testing this business concept.” Avoid using salesy language and observe if others show any interest in being a part of your startup business plan.
After starting the conversation in a casual manner, discuss your investment opportunity. Warning, discuss does not mean pitch. These people know nothing about your business. You do not want to overwhelm them with loads of information about your business model.
Think of fundraising as giving people sips of water. Give them information in bits and pieces so they can process them. It depends on how you phrase your sentences to make the potential investor ask for more sips of water.
One mistake excited entrepreneurs make is sending every business detail to everybody. It is almost like giving sips of water with a fire hose and drowning all your potential investors. It makes you sound desperate and you lose credibility. Be patient. Some investors will come to you, and some will not. If they are interested, they will come to you for more. And when they do, feel free to explain your business to them. For the ones who do not come for more, move on to the next one. Or maybe try again with a different business approach in six to nine weeks.
In 2010, Kevin Systrom went to a party for a startup called Hutch. Kevin met two venture capitalists that were impressed by his App, Bourbon. The purpose of Bourbon was so people could make plans, check in, and share photos from places that had good drinks. Shortly after the party, Kevin decided to quit his job and focus on Bourbon. Within only just two weeks, Kevin raised $500,000 from those venture capitalists at the party. By July 2010, they pivoted Bourbon, focusing just on the photo sharing feature of Bourbon. Bourbon was renamed Instagram.
Two years later, in March 2012 Instagram had 27 million users. Facebook purchased Instagram later that year for $1 billion.
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