If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.
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You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.
Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.
I want to give producers more financial security.
I'm primarily just an investor.
Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!
We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.
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