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OUR RESOURCES

Our role is to help entrepreneurs change the world, giving them the support they need to better organise their companies and fuel their visions. That’s why we have decided to publicly share the resources that we’ve created throughout the years to help our clients navigate their fundraising.

These include guides, checklists, models and reports that may help entrepreneurs have a better understanding of the fundraising process.*

*these are the same templates that we use internally and for our clients, but they are just a starting point… If you are confused or intimidated by them, check out our courses where we explain one by one each template or reach out to us and we’ll take care of the rest.

*these are the same templates that we use internally and for our clients, but they are just a starting point… If you are confused or intimidated by them, don’t worry: you can always reach out to us and we’ll take care of the rest.

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OUR COURSES

Throughout our journey we have met so many startups that just needed a little nudge in order to guide them into the right direction. A short call, simple instructions and some moral support was all they needed in order to crack on with their businesses. That’s why we have created our downloads.

But sometimes it’s not enough… and as we don’t have the time to explain the ins and outs of our methodology we decided to invest money, time and energy to create a short series of courses to help you master aspects of your company that include projections, performance and fundraising.

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HORROR STORIES

scary hazards that haunt founders & entrepreneurs

We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but the following treacherous tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true, experienced and suffered through by fellow founders and entrepreneurs.

Their stories demonstrate the dangers and challenges that can impact start-ups and SMEs, and what future entrepreneurs can learn from these all-too-real nightmares.

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EU Trademark Swindle

This is a horror story with a happy ending. It’s a story about dubious marketing practices and fully fledged scams.…

WARNING

These Horror Stories are recollections of real events and we’ll try to be as objective as possible in narrating them. At the same time, any judgment or opinion you will find in these articles, including the implications deriving from the use of words like scam, scheme, fraud and similar, represents our views on the topic and should be interpreted as such.

In other words, we want to help other founders and entrepreneurs avoid falling for these traps but, at the same time, we don’t want to be sued. So decide for yourself…

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VALUATION SERIES

How much is your company worth?

In this series of posts we will explore how pre-money valuations work, and the theoretical and practical implications of valuing a business…

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Income-based Valuations

Income-based valuations are a crucial tool for investors and business owners in determining the value of an asset based on…
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Market-Based Valuations

Many factors weigh on the valuation of a company, and for sure there are no two businesses alike. Furthermore, even…
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THE CHECKLIST VALUATION METHOD

The Checklist method compares early-stage startups within the same geographical market, taking as highest value the highest valuations in the…
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Valuation: Qualitative Methods

When looking at early-stage valuations, our favourite approach is to rely on benchmarks from the market and then compare them…
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Valuations Made Easy

We are happy to announce that we’ve partnered with Equidam: an online platform for startup valuation that enables entrepreneurs to…
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101 Startup Stages

The startup life cycle has 6 stages, no wait 5, no, another website said 7 stages and then if you…
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Early Stage Valuations

The question is: how can we evaluate the startup if we have not yet reached the stage where recurring revenues…
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Fundraising 101

Managing to raise capital is rarely easy, and can prove to be an uphill battle, even at the best of…
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Funders’ Dilution

It’s important to plan ahead and have your exit strategy clear from the start. What do you want to do…
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DCF Valuation Template

This Discounted Cash Flows technique involves deriving the value of a business by calculating the present value of its expected…

Valuation

How to value my company? Sure, you want to minimize the number of shares you will eventually give to investors,…

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Investment Process

Closing an investment is something that could theoretically take less than a month, but this almost never happens. Normally six…
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KPIs

It is generally agreed that four to ten measurements may be suitable for the majority of companies, but the number…
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Getting To Philosophy

Here is an experiment that you can conduct, right now. Open any Wikipedia page, on any topic of your choosing.…
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The Cheesecake Family

First of all, thank you for your kind donations towards the Cheesecake Family in Kyiv! As you probably know, one…

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