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Here are 5 things to keep in mind while raising seed fund

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Manish Pandey
Here are 5 things to keep in mind while raising seed fund

We all have come across seed funding a lot of times in our life as we have seen most of the business and industries investing seed funds and startups. It is a great opportunity for startups to start their business in a new way where the base and the foundation of the business should be firm and stronger. The stronger the base the more power to your business.

 

Well let's know about What Seed Funding is?

 

 

Seed Funding is all about growing your business with the help of investing in it. There are alot of key investors who help to invest their amount into some business where they could have a profit. These investing games are  mostly done by friends or family.

 

For example

 

Why is it called seed? Now let's take an example of your family you live in a joint family in one society and you want to grow mogra plants in your balcony so you ask your other family member to give a seed of mogra and that person gives you back but he expects to you give mogra inreturn as when the plant grows you'll have to share a mogra with him since he helped you give the seed.

It means here that your mogra flower refers to equity & the plant that's growing is investment.

 

Seed Funding is quite important these days. Especially if your business is a startup or has just at the initial stage of starting it helps the industries to grow by using the investing technique but they also look for some equity in return.

 

Here are some types of seed funding you shall read about

  1. Crowdfunding

 

  1. Corporate Seed Funds

 

  1. Incubators

 

  1. Accelerators

 

  1. C Funding

 

 

Why Raise Money?

 

For most of the industries coming across a news business is sometimes tremendous challenges and sometimes it gets a lot of worries some when the amount is little to the investors. Now before coming up with any money seed cash is used to get things going along.

 

Well here are Here are 5 things to keep in mind while raising seed fund

 

 

  1. Create a list

 

Basically this list would contain more of  engine and VC investors whom you might get forward to talk with and perhaps this should contain all the details and the basic details of the investors which might give you location , the names etc.

 

  1. Get your terms ready

 

There are most of the times where you'll see the investors are ready to invest but before that you need to check on it thoroughly what's behind the curtain. It means before accepting the deal do a thorough research on that particular investor and if you feel it is alright you are ready to go with. You are good to go and be ready to close.

  1. Talk to angle groups

 

Several angel groups help you get some deals. Talking to angel groups they would help you start with the initiality when most of the investors are not ready to help with it.

 

  1. Do not track your progress

 

Early business startups make a huge mistake by tracking up the progress and later they get disappointed and leave the business hanging. Business needs to follow the objectives at the start and not worry about the progress. Clear your objectives step by step and you shall reach to its point.

 

  1. Prepare important documents for the investors

 

Creating a business plan to showcase it to the investors who would love to invest into it would help you alot.  A perfect presentation would help you get the funds easily. Here's how you can do it.

 

  1. Business Plan

 

Prepare a business plan highly detailed of what's included and excluded.

 

  1. Summary

 

Summary helps others to understand a short description about your company

 

  1. Presentation / Pitch

 

Prepare a presentation of your business profile including each and every detail into it. The presentation should be simple and easy to understand. Add photos and videos.

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

Here are some tips to follow and to take these points into consideration and follow . If all goes well with the seed investment then nothing like it. For seed funding support get in touch with us.

 

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