crosspring presentation by maurice beckand verwee at bitcoin wednesday #19
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Raising capitalJanuary 7 2015
Maurice Beckand VerwéeFounder
Crosspring Incubator/ accelerator
Investments in Publishing, Altcoins, ticketing, services. Some of our investments:
Investment criteria
– Team (knowledge)
– Team (complementary)
– Team (drive)
– Concept (Problem/ solution)
– Time to market
– Scalable (concept)
– Deliver
TEAM
Crosspring Team Table©
Time Money Assets Stake
Founder 1 20 hr EUR 1.000 URL's ??
Founder 2 40 hr EUR 1.000 Technology ??
Founder 3 60 hr EUR 500 - ??
Total EUR 2.500 100%
Valley of death
Idea Concept Beta Company
Benefits of launching- Validate early hypotheses- Social proof / traction- Feedback from real
customers- Evidence team can ship- Develop “bootstrapper”
mentality- Easier to raise capital 9
Launch and Learn
FUCK IT LAUNCH IT
Sources of funding
● Teams time and energy● Friends, family, fools● Government ● Crowd funding● Informal investors business angels ● Debtors● Creditors● Banks● Venture capital
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Questions to ask an investor (today;-)
What are the next steps in the process? What concerns do you have? How much time do you typically spend with your companies? Can you walk me through your decision making process? How do you think you can help our company? Do you lead and / or follow? What’s your typical investment amount? How does your firm think about follow on investments? Is there any additional information you’d like to see? Which investors do you enjoy working with?
