2025 Resolution: Find an Effective Mentor to Make Your Startup Fundable

As a startup mentor, I always think about how I can make the most impact.

These days, everyone claims to be a startup mentor. Whether they have ever done a startup or raised money, they are ready to give advice on how to raise money.

Most of the advice you get this way is blind leading the blind.

What constitutes good startup mentoring?

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2025 Resolution: Get Meaningful Investor Introductions for Your Startup

If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY.

What does it mean to be READY?

Being READY means you need to be able to tell a credible story to defend a high velocity revenue growth investment thesis.

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2025 Resolution: Make VCs Chase YOU to Fund Your Startup

Please post this on your wall in 2025:

“Startups: Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars. Go as Kings.”

This is the 1Mby1M mantra and it works.

Over 99% of founders chase funding before they are fundable.

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap to $1 Million Revenue with Your Startup

Can you hit $1M+ in Revenue in 2025?

In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident:

• A large percentage of VCs are chasing Unicorns.

• Too much money chasing too few deals capable of delivering hyper growth bids up valuations.

• Many Death by Overfunding tragedies have emerged.

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap to an Early Exit with Your Startup

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with many bootstrapped entrepreneurs.

I love working with self-financed startups and modestly capitalized ones that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping.

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2025 Resolution: Find an Exit for Your Startup

As the new year begins, entrepreneurs need to think about new year resolutions.

Perhaps you have come to the conclusion that you will not seek further funding.

Instead, you will look for an Exit.

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2025 Resolution: Achieve Repeatability with Your Startup to Become Fundable

Will you be going after funding in 2025?

To raise your FIRST institutional funding round OR to raise your NEXT round of funding, the requirement is similar.

You need to show a path to High Velocity Growth.

Velocity, however, is squarely dependent on Repeatability.

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January 9 – 667th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 667th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!