Summary:Good investors take the time to understand your business, and you will need to take the time to identify the name of the investor is for you.
Financing is the most important part of the entrepreneurial journey. If you are an entrepreneur, it is necessary to know the standard procedures followed by the majority of venture firms. Although each case is unique, but an understanding of the important stage, the stage means being able to realize that they know what they have to meet the requirements, what goals need to be reached, it is easier to raise funds.
In order to make this post can play a role as much as possible, I did not describe in detail my company is what to do in these areas, on the contrary, I try the whole process is divided into eight stages, so that it can be applied to more companies.
The first stage: Before starting the fundraising
Good investment before the first person to meet with you, to you, your company and your market involved understand.
They use AppAnnie, Alexa, Linkedin, GitHub, ProductHunt and other such services to find companies interested in and concerned about relevant trends. They also continued to focus on outstanding angel investors, corporations, seed funds and incubators to ensure that companies and entrepreneurs know what they recognized to investors impressed.
As a party to the dialogue of entrepreneurs, but also to start as soon as possible. Although you must first build the product, the creation of the company, but in actual need or want to take a moment before raising funds and investor communication is worth it.
Good investors take the time to understand your business, and you will need to take the time to identify the name of the investor is for you.
The second stage: the beginning of the process
According to their situation, start-up companies and investors can start the financing process.
If you want to take the first step, you have to take the initiative to send personal information to contact investors, that you are considering financing. For investors who have not yet established contact, the message content is too straightforward to avoid the cold, you can quickly build a relationship (seen in a campaign, etc.), or use your personal network (angel investors, employees, friends ) to achieve the warm up effect. Again, I do not recommend by e-mail to convey a lot of information & mdash; & mdash; interviews or over the phone is usually more useful.
Sometimes, a company has been closely following investors (in some cases, they are already investors, while some cases are not) will be the first start financing process. Obviously, this is because they are very interested in your company, the company would like to get bigger or more part-owned before the name. At this point, you have to distinguish whether this is consistent with your needs.