2025 Resolution: Find an Experienced 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: Secure Meaningful Investor Introductions for Your Startup

Will you be seeking investor introductions for your startup in 2025?

Top VC funds operate in the 98% rejection rate zone.

Let’s avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and money without achieving results.

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

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2025 Resolution: Make VCs Pursue 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 Your Startup to $1M Revenue

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

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

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap Your Startup to an Early Exit

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with many bootstrapped entrepreneurs. I’ve helped several of them find Early Exits.

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

I’ve also interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who are playing in the early stage game.

I’ve asked all of them the following questions:

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2025 Resolution: Make Your Startup Fundable

As you know, I categorically support bootstrapped entrepreneurs.

There are numerous startups now that have achieved some revenue without any external funding.

However, it has taken time. Sometimes, it has taken 5-7 years to get there.

VCs, however, are looking for velocity.
Their goal is to achieve $100M in 5-7 years.

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2025 Resolution: Fix Acceleration Problems with Your Startup to Become Fundable

Let’s be strategic about our time and resources in 2025.

If you are facing Velocity challenges, we should look closely at your Positioning.

The lowest hanging fruit in terms of what CAN be fixed in a B-to-B SaaS venture is Positioning.

Even in B-to-C, Positioning can be fixed.

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck, Join an Accelerator Part-time

Do you want to join an Accelerator to begin your startup journey in 2025?

Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs get rejected by accelerators every year.

Y Combinator rejects 98% of their applicants.

How is the 1Mby1M Accelerator different? Let’s take a look.

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