Want to understand how startup funding rounds really work? In this video, I'll deconstruct and explain the startup funding rounds, why they're created and how they're used.
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Let me demystify this complex, confusing strategy they call:
Startup Funding Rounds.
Yeah, you’ve heard the words thrown around before.
“We’re raising our series B”, and “I’m looking for a pre-seed angel investor” or “We’re gearing up for an IPO”...
They may as well be talking another language, right?
Except that somewhere between those phrases, letters and acronyms is a reliable, rock-solid funding strategy that is PROVEN to work again and again.
It has turned founders into billionaires…
Put CEOs on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine…
And transformed back-of-napkin ideas into living breathing companies.
So let’s cut to the bone and spell out the sequential funding rounds in PLAIN ENGLISH.
Including:
- What each funding round means
- How much money you can expect from each round
- Who provides that money
- How to tell which round a business needs next
- Who leads a company through each round
- Why the rounds even exist in the first place!
If there’s a part of you that feels intimidated because you don’t yet understand all the “CEO talk” (yes, I’m using air quotes here), then don’t worry.
I didn’t either.
Now I could write a dictionary on “corporate jargon” 3-houses-thick and I would never even recommend anyone reads it.
But in those early days, I was beating down doors to find someone - anyone - that could spell out the basics when I was trying to start my first business.
By the end of this video, startup funding rounds will finally make sense.
Drop me a comment if you’re still not sure about anything.
I’d love to hear from you.
Dan “plain-English” Martell
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“You can only keep what you give away.” That’s the mantra that’s shaped Dan Martell from a struggling 20-something business owner in the Canadian Maritimes (which is way out east) to a successful startup founder who’s raised more than $3 million in venture funding and exited not one... not two... but three tech businesses: Clarity.fm, Spheric, and Flowtown.
You can only keep what you give away. That philosophy has led Dan to invest in 33+ early stage startups such as Udemy, Intercom, Unbounce, and Foodspotting. It’s also helped him shape the future of Hootsuite as an advisor to the social media tour de force.
An activator, a tech geek, an adrenaline seeker and, yes, a romantic (ask his wife Renee), Dan has recently turned his attention to teaching startups a fundamental, little-discussed lesson that directly impacts their growth: how to scale. You’ll find not only incredible insights in every moment of every talk Dan gives - but also highly actionable takeaways that will propel your business forward. Because Dan gives freely of all that he knows. After all, you can only keep what you give away.
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