Securing Second- and Third-Round Venture Capital Financing

Written by Jim D. Ray


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* Lending institutions (banks) * Venture capital firms * New private investors * Other professional service providers within your core management team

If you developed a list of potential investment partners prior to start-up, renew your contact with these individuals. By telephone or letter, conveyrepparttar success your product or service has experienced, as well as your purpose forrepparttar 142119 post start-up funding. With a solid track record in hand, you may be surprised to find how many potential second-round investment partners you have.

In addition, you’ll be in a stronger position duringrepparttar 142120 negotiation process, meaning you won’t have to give up as much control to achieve your desired result.

Tips For Maximizing Post Start-Up Funding

* Don’t commingle funds. Avoid falling intorepparttar 142121 trap of using new funds to levelrepparttar 142122 books. If you obtained additional funding for expansion, do not deviate fromrepparttar 142123 plan. Address any cash flow problems or existing debt service independently from your company’s expansion needs.

* Learn from past mistakes. Undoubtedly, your company’s start-up phase was a learning experience unlike any other. Recallrepparttar 142124 lessons learned from handling your initial start-up capital. Now that you’ve established a strong working relationship, call in your management team to gather additional opinions onrepparttar 142125 best way to disburse funds on each project.

* Look for new opportunities alongrepparttar 142126 way. As you implement your expansion plan, be onrepparttar 142127 lookout for ways to streamline and maximizerepparttar 142128 results of your efforts. Don’t be afraid to upgrade your plan; remember that your business plan should be a “living” document, able to flex asrepparttar 142129 status of your market andrepparttar 142130 general economy change.

Jim D. Ray is a seasoned entrepreneur and president of Web Presence, a national web design firm exclusively serving the small business market sector. To learn more, or for a free quote for your own web site, visit the Web Presence web site at: http://www.web-presence.net.


Web Conferences Versus Video Conferences...

Written by John Simpson


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Web conferences can run to tens of thousands of users, butrepparttar number of users in a channel limits videoconferences byrepparttar 142118 capacity of their own server. Web conferences are more flexible because they can run over most any Internet connection but videoconferences require broadband.

There are broader costs in utilizing video conferencing beyondrepparttar 142119 initial expense of setting uprepparttar 142120 connections to maintaining ISDN lines.

Both types of conferences answer needs inrepparttar 142121 business community. Ultimately an end user, in most casesrepparttar 142122 companies that require these services, will have to decide what serves their own interests. For some,repparttar 142123 cost of video conferencing is going to be prohibitive versusrepparttar 142124 value it returns.

Still others may valuerepparttar 142125 personalization of video conferencing. While it's true that web conferencing has an edge because of its relatively low initial costs, this too could vary upon usage. =========================================================== Find out why web conferencing can slash your companies travel and communication costs. Discover all you need to know about voip, and how to use this breakthro technology. http://www.web-conferencing-101.com/

** Attn Ezine editors / Site Owners ** Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine or on your site so long as you leave all links in place, do not modifyrepparttar 142126 content and include my resource box as listed above.



John Simpson works in software development. Some time ago he was asked to research voip and web conferencing. Now his company has slashed their comms bill and travel costs, using web conferencing technologies.


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