Mar 19, 2025
Negotiating the Valuation
Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.
Negotiating the valuation is a key step in the fundraising process.
Here are some helpful strategies to consider in negotiating the valuation:
Understand the comparable...
Mar 18, 2025
Best Practices for Series A Fundraising
Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.
Fundraising for Series A is fundamentally different from fundraising for a seed round.
In the seed round, the goal is to convince the investor you can sell it.
In...
Mar 17, 2025
Matching Risk To Reward
Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.
In choosing an investment, the investor matches risk to reward.
A public stock may go down but most likely will not go bankrupt.
A startup is much more likely to go under.
Since...
Mar 14, 2025
In this episode of Investor Connect, Hall Martin engages in a conversation with Jason Kutasi, a prominent member of YPO, a global leadership community for young presidents. Jason discusses his journey from exiting a D2C children's book publisher to Scholastic, to establishing an ad agency post-exit. He shares his...
Mar 14, 2025
The Secret Is in the Iterations
Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.
Many founders try to tell everything to the investor in the first pitch.
This is not possible as there’s no way to convey everything about the startup in one go.
It’s...