This book unveils the secrets of how to get your startup funded! It brings a fresh perspective that guides you to achieve the highest levels of startup and business success. GET YOUR STARTUP FUNDED in 6 months or less is a book that simplifies the methodologies and strategies of 'Unicorn Startups' that have grown from conceptual-stage to being valued at over USD1 Billion. The author illustrates the approach to investor pitching, aggressive fundraising, and more importantly provides formulas and tools that are considered industry best practice. The methodologies outlined in this book are used by entrepreneurs who successfully raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their journey to IPO their startup. The approach revealed assists startups in attracting the attention of investors and the market and to pitch to investors in a language that they understand. If you are a startup entrepreneur, you have most likely experienced past failures and losses. If you have been wondering what went wrong and how you can positively change your future, then look no further than this book. At its foundation is a spiritual message that serves to shift your perspective and open your mind to a world of new possibilities. You will find intertwined a closer look at the universal laws and how to apply them to create a business that is built on passion, purpose and clarity.

The world is captivated by a startup frenzy, yet ninety percent fail in the first few years. Entrepreneurs start businesses in a daze of enthusiasm only to realize that running the business and scaling it, requires the continuous lubricant of money. The close-knit investor world is brutal with its own code and language. Entrepreneurs could spend years receiving encouragement, smiles, and handshakes but no cheques. Nothing has trained or prepared them for this world where one misstep could prove fatal for the future of their business. You could spend years wandering or pause and master this seemingly impossible task of raising timely finance. The book demystifies the world of funding and provides actionable insights on how to prepare for it and engage with investors, in a successful and timely manner. Tips on everything from preparing oneself, planning one’s own business, crafting materials for investors and engaging with investors for long-term funding, are covered in an easy and comprehensive manner in this book. Give yourself and your business the best shot they deserve.

Startups, like sailing vessels, do not travel in straight lines. The wind and the waves of the real world move the ship, and your startup, in unpredictable ways. This book is designed to give you an analytical set of tools to help you navigate your startup or corporate innovation through the murky waters of real life. Every business has failures. No business succeeds without some change of plan. Navigating Your Way to Startup Success will show you how to create a startup designed to test its assumptions so those that are not worthy fail—often and fast. This book builds on modern startup management techniques like Agile and Lean to bring an analytical and quantitative framework to the most common startup failures. Navigating through those failures means finding your way to startup success. Harlan T Beverly, PhD holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MBA from UT Austin, and a PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University. Harlan teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Assistant Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at UT Austin, the world's first university business accelerator. Harlan has successfully launched five hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC, 2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). He has raised over $30 million in venture financing in the challenging intersection of entertainment and technology.

This comprehensive book based on the rich practical experience of Head of an Incubator and CEO, of an angel network aims to guide startup founders regarding how to secure government grants and schemes as well as raise debt and equity funding in the Indian context. It starts with outlining entrepreneurship ecosystem in India and maps it to a startup’s journey in terms of raising funding. It can help startup founders how to undertake startup planning from the perspective of debt and equity financing. It has rich content to guide startup founders on how to prepare their pitch, identify angel networks, and various nuances associated with pitching. It not only depicts key aspects associated with VC funding, but also presents a roadmap depicting the journey from startup to corporate and IPO. To guide the startup founders, it also provides templates regarding Founders’ Agreement, and Term Sheet.

Nowadays, fundraising has become a problem for all including entrepreneurs& mid-sized companies. So, we thought of developing this eBook for you. This eBook enables you to gain knowledge about fundraising. Following topics have been covered in this chapter 1.Basics of Fund Raising 2.How to determine the Goals & Objective of Fund Raising? 3.Budget Sheet oWhy investment is needed? oHow much investment is needed? 4.Stages of Start up oWhat are the different stages of a start up? 5.Features of different Investment Types oWhat are the features of different types of investment? oWhat if the fund is equity? oWhat if the fund is debt? 6.Source of Funding-Part 1 7.Sources of Funding Part 2 8.Sources of Funding- Part 3 9.Steps in Process of Fundraising oWhat are the steps in the fundraising process? oExplain steps 1, 2, 3 & so on. 10.Bootstrapping oYou have to do bootstrapping while funding. oBootstrap means establishing a business from your own money without taking external funds 11.How to Pitch Investors? oImportance of pitching oimportance of good communication while pitching 12.Prototypes of pitching oWhat are the prototypes of pitching? 13.Term Sheet 14.Prototypes & Examples of Term Sheet 15.Due Diligence 16.Documentation in Fundraising 17.SSA & SHA oSSA-Shares Subscription Agreement oSHA-Shareholder's Agreement 18.Ways of Start up Valuation 19.Angel Investment oHow will you get Angel investment? 20.Venture Capitalist oWhere can you find the Venture Capitalist? 21.Ways to Raise Venture Capitalist 22.Things to consider while talking to Venture Capitalist 23.IPO 24.Role of an investment banker oWhy investment banker is important? oWhat value does an investor banker add? 25.Investor Relations oWhen money hits in your bank account you have to do two kinds of compliances. oThe first compliance is with your investor. He asks you about data & details that you have to ogive them. oSecond compliance is regulatory compliance as you are receiving money. You have to intimate ROC. oIf your investor belongs to a foreign county such as an international equity fund, you have to follow the guidelines of RBI & FEMA. This is the content of 25 chapters. In addition, you will be provided: oCase studies oExamples oTheories oHow to prepare yourself? As there is an announcement in the flight "Sit back, relax & enjoy". You should enjoy this eBook. In addition to enjoying this eBook, make your notes for sure. Make your curation about how this eBook is helping you. You have to identify at which stage of this fundraising funnel, you are being stuck. In this eBook, you will get simple implementable tricks, theories, and practical examples that enable you to close fundraising deals successfully.

You can work from wherever you want, on whatever you want – Just Startup! You can follow your passion and still make a lot of money – Just Startup! You can have ownership, freedom and excitement – Just Startup! A traditional “Job” isn’t secure anymore. You don’t need to be part of the rat race and can Start-up on your own. No experience, No degree or diploma, No huge investments – just the right set of tools. “Startup… Just Startup” is a step-by-step guide for you to build your own Start-up from scratch – Idea to Implementation to Money! A Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Educator, Mentor and Linguist, Gaurav Vasishta has put the essence of his 22 years of experience and learning into this comprehensive, systematic formula for success for first-time and recurring Entrepreneurs to Startup… Just Startup. Bonus: Includes a utilitarian Tool-set for all Entrepreneurs for reference.

Starting or growing a company? If you are thinking about raising money for your new business idea, your startup or existing company then this book will help. Understand what investors want, the investment sweet spot, how to pitch them, what they get for their investment, how to speed up the whole process and common mistakes which will could delay you by months. Comes with a range of Founder Tips that will put you ahead of your startup competition. Choose Your Startup: How to Fund Your Company focuses on the main ways to get money for any company. Interested in understanding self funding, angel investors, venture capitalists, crowd funding and the other ways to fund your business better? If so, get this book.

Successful startups and small businesses can play a significant role in economic growth and job creation. They also contribute to economic dynamism by spurring innovation and injecting competition. Startups are known to introduce new products and services that can create new value in the economy. It is notable that most startups exit within their first ten years, and most surviving young businesses do not grow but remain small. Startups and small businesses face several obstacles to their development. Accessing capital is a crucial constraint on their growth. Most startups and small businesses have difficulties getting the funds they need because of their lack of a performance track record and lack of collateral, making it difficult for lenders or investors to assess their risk. Besides, they are in the early stages of development and face a very high possibility of failure, which significantly raises financing and investment risk.Investment in Startups and Small Business Financing provides 12 thematic and case studies on new methods for bringing private investment (loans or equity) to startups and easing small businesses' access to finance (debt and capital). The contributors are senior-level policy experts and researchers from governments, think tanks, academia, and international organizations. The chapters are authored in a policy-oriented way to be understandable for the readers with a different background. This book is a precious source for the governments for adopting the right policies to develop small businesses and startups and valuable for the researchers in economics, business, and finance.

This is a pioneering effort to provide in one place, alternative sources of funding, professionally structured business plan and other related aspects of raising start-up funds. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the Startup Ecosystem, the role of Incubators, Mentors & Accelerators (IMA) from the stage of ideation to the actual setting up of a project, principal players in this process like Universities, IITs, IIMs, Indian Business Houses, Multinational Corporations and reputed professionals and intrapreneurs have been identified and listed. Pros and cons of angel finance, seed capital, venture capital, crowdfunding, impact investment, hedge fund, debt fund, private equity, valuation, recent deals & exits, emerging trends and ideas in the startup scenario are some of the areas discussed in detail in the publication. Existing success stories and the government’s thrust on creating India as a hub of startups is drawing many students to entrepreneurship. B-schools and IITs are rolling out enthusiastic professionals, accelerators etc. A unique feature of the publication is a section on case studies, which demonstrate bird’s eye view of their birth pain, how they traversed the thorny path, faced failure after failure, changed their ideas and strategies and finally how they reached their destination successfully.