Should You Start A Company

1. 43% – Giving away too much of their company during negotiations
2. 42% – Sounding nervous during their pitch
3. 11% – Making promises they can’t keep
4. 4% – Opening themselves up to a lawsuit

These kinds of fears are totally understandable – especially if you’ve still a fundraising virgin.

What are your biggest fears about raising capital for your own start up company?

Funding Foreplay is a four module audio training course that is designed to teach start up company CEOs like you – how to properly prepare and present the dozen documents you must have to successfully romance and seduce angel investors and venture capital to invest in your company.

Funding Foreplay is designed to help entrepreneurs just like you to overcome all four of these fears.  This video shows you how.

Wishing you stellar success with your start up company,

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA

Ceo & Chief ImpleMENTOR

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When you want to raise investment funding from private or angel investors, you have GOT to do it the right way – or you could end up with both the federal SEC and 50 state securities boards coming after you – like what happened last month in Pennsylvania.

The risk of major penalties to you and your company are just too great to do this wrong. Look at what happened in this one case: (more…)

Do you still want to start that new company or home based business?

I’m pleased to tell you about my own new company – Start Up Company University – which is a division of Ceo Resource LLC. The first product offered by Start Up Company University might make all the difference to your own company’s future.

Funding Foreplay is a four module audio training course that teaches start up company CEOs like you – how to properly prepare and present the dozen documents you must have to successfully romance and seduce angel investors and VC to invest in your company.

I’ve condensed and distilled down the techniques that have taken me three decades to acquire and fine tune with my own real companies and my own real deals. Funding Foreplay includes over five hours of audio – and over 390 pages of real life, highly confidential, documents you can use as guides for your own dozen documents.

The introductory price of Funding Foreplay will double after the sale of the first 500 courses. You can learn to speak the language of investor love and grab Funding Foreplay at half the price…if you hurry. (more…)

As I get questions from readers from my Ask The Chief Dragon Slayer Campaign, I will take some of the questions that I think might have a broad audience and post them here on the blog.

This one is filed under “Dragons – Fundraising: Can I Use Investor Money To Pay Me Back?”

Question:

Love the blog! Finally someone answering real life startup company questions! I want to raise $1.8 million for my computer business to take it to the next level. Can I use $250,000 of the $1.8 million to pay me back the money that I have already invested in getting my company started?

Thanks again!

Walt

Answer:

This is one of the most frequent questions I get from clients: Can I get back all of my money that I have invested so far in starting my company from the new investment dollars I get from angel investors or venture capital?

The short answer is almost never. (more…)

As I get questions from readers from my Ask The Chief Dragon Slayer Campaign, I will take some of the questions that I think might have a broad audience and post them here on the blog.

This one is filed under “Dragons – Fundraising: Can I Spend The Investor Money As I Get It?”

Question:

Thanks for your comments about accredited angel investors. It was very helpful. We just finished your business plan and are starting to pitch our deal to angel investors and venture capital. Since we are already spending money on buying stuff for the company, can we start spending the investor money as we get it?

Steve

Answer:

The first thing you need to buy is a big sword – so you can fight off all the dragons that are getting ready to hatch! Firstly, you didn’t say – but I hope you have a Reg D PPM for a LOT of reasons. Please see FundRaisingDocuments.com

One of the things that should be covered in your Reg D PPM is how you handle (more…)

As I get questions from readers from my Ask The Chief Dragon Slayer Campaign, I will take some of the questions that I think might have a broad audience and post them here on the blog.

This one is filed under “Dragons – Fundraising: What Are Accredited Investors And Why Should I Only Raise Money From Them For My StartUp Company?”

Question:

I’m getting ready to raise $2 million for my startup real estate company. I’ve finished my business plan but a friend of mine said I should only talk to accredited investors. I’m not exactly sure what an accredited investor is and I don’t understand why I can’t talk to anybody I want to about investing in my company? Please make this one of your questions for your teleseminar.

Thanks,

Mark

Answer:

Thank you for submitting your question at www.StartUpCompanyQuestions.com. There are several critically important implications and potential dragons I gathered from your question. Since I want to keep you from battling some very vicious dragons as a result of your upcoming actions, I am answering it now so you don’t have to wait until the next teleseminar.

The term, accredited investors, has to do with securities laws – both federal and state – and making sure you comply with the very onerous restrictions that go with the fundraising for your start up company. I’ll give you both the short and long answer to what an accredited investor is in a minute. But the first thing you need to know is that if you raising capital from angel (AKA private) investors, you will almost certainly need more than just a business plan. You need what’s known as a Reg D Private Placement Memorandum – PPM – in order to comply with federal and state securities laws. (more…)

(The following is an article in the upcoming March 1, 2008 edition of the RTIR – Radio TV Interview Report that goes out to 4,000 radio and TV producers in the USA and Canada each month. It is part of the promotion of my upcoming teleseminar series on “Funding Foreplay: What You Need To Know To Romance The Funding For Your Start Up Company.” Stay tuned for details!)

Will You Lose Your Job in the Recession of 2008?
Why More People Will Start Their Own Businesses This Year

Consumer confidence is plummeting as is the housing market. Companies from Citigroup to Sprint to Yahoo are announcing big layoffs. There were more than 15,000 mass layoffs nationwide in 2007; this year may be worse. It isn’t pretty in the business world and anyone who works for a big company knows they have zero job security.

While people always fantasize about starting and opening their own businesses, in times of turmoil those thoughts multiply. But should your audience be among those entrepreneurs to take the plunge?

The man to ask is internationally-renowned consultant Robert Lee Goodman, who has consulted with more than 2,000 entrepreneurs in more than 36 countries and has launched nearly four dozen of his own companies.

Invite him on-air to:

• Take calls from audience members who want to start their own businesses. Are their ideas viable?
• Talk about the questions individuals should ask themselves before they pull the trigger.
• Reveal what most would-be entrepreneurs get wrong about developing a business plan, finding backers and other important issues.
• Address why so many baby boomers are finally ready to be their own boss.
• Share some of the reasons why not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.

CREDENTIALS: Robert Lee Goodman has an MBA and 30 years of CEO-level business and consulting experience with virtually every type of industry. He regularly gives workshops on starting a business and has a new blog, www.ShouldYouStartACompany.com. Other Web sites he operates include www.StartUpCompanyWorkshop.com and www.CeoResource.com. Audio clips on Web sites.

AVAILABILITY: Tampa, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Robert Lee Goodman, Ceo@CeoResource.com