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In this post, we will answer 5 Questions on Venture Capital Investment, that we have seen from early stage companies seeking Venture Capital funding. The above video also expresses similar views.
Q1: How does Venture capital work?
Answer: Venture capital is the term used for unsecured equity funding by specialist investment firms (often focusing on a few sectors) in return for a part of the equity in the company being funded. Venture capital investments carry considerable risk because they are unsecured and it is estimates that only 1 in 10 early stage companies generates good profits.
Q2: How much equity stake do VCs usually take?
Answer: The most common equity stakes taken seem to be in the range of 20-50%, which ensure that if the company succeeds, then the VC makes a good return. Over 50% equity investment by any one VC is rare because the risk increases significantly.
Q3. What do a VC expect in return for the equity funding.
Answer: Because only a few ventures actually become profitable, a venture capital company looks for a high return (a compound return of 25% or more) on each plan, largely generated by growth in the share value of the invested company through increasing brand name and also increasing sales. Most VCs also seek a representation on the company’s board, though it is not a guarantee of producing success from the venture. A good VC would be a partner with the entrepreneur. So personal dynamics are very important. VCs help with raising additional money and financial strategy and also executive team strengthening.
Q4: How much time does it take to raise venture capital?
Answer: It takes about 6 months. Raising capital will take longer than you imagine. Plan for 6 months, and think beyond initial funding. Set realistic milestones, and keep planning for future capital. Learn from others, including other business owners and investors. If you are looking for funding, you have to be patient. For every VC who invests in your venture, there will be 10 VCs who would say no to you.
Q5: How should we approach the business plan writing?
Answer: When it comes business plans, you need a crisp 1-2 page executive summary and it must show a good story of what you want to achieve and what resources you have and what you are looking for. The more you precisely know your Haves and Have Nots, the better your business plan. So don’t get trapped in a 50 business plan that’s full of all kinds of data and it never completes itself.
A long business plan is not a good idea if the same message can be expressed in a couple of pages. Don’t confuse number of pages with clarity of thoughts. Go ahead with a business plan that’s brief and present a coherent logic that interests to the VC. Be honest on things you don’t know. Investors appreciate people who are transparent.
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Let me share with you my recent leadership challenge and the leadership secrets you can use in any team building situation for great leadership results.
I have the honor and pleasure of volunteering for many groups causes. In many situations, I am called upon to lead as chairperson or co-chairperson. Recently, I had the honor of co-chairing an event that involved leading and motivating a team of volunteers to work together for a successful result. Overall, the team volunteers areand leaders in health care, education, business, media, the arts, and faith-based organizations, etc. In other words, this team of volunteers consisted of very motivated and accomplished people who wanted to make a difference.
One committee member became increasingly negative in her communication and actions at the expense of the other committee members. She behaved in a manner that was not in line with our overall mission. After a coaching session agreeing on what was expected from her in relationship to our mission, her behavior became increasingly worse. The final straw was a very negative e-mail that stated she was the only committee member who was doing anything and personally attacked the other committee members.
After consulting with the event organizers to gain agreement on a plan of action, I called this person to let her know that this was not acceptable behavior and invited her to meet with me to discuss how we could bring her behavior more in line with the mission of our project. She rejected my invite, and I let her know that by not excepting my invite, she was no longer a participant in our event. I followed up with an e-mail and letter reiterating my verbal statement. She made the choice to “fire herself.”
As leader of the event, I made telephone calls to committee members to explain the committee change, let each committee member know the wonderful job they were doing, and shared with them where we were in relationship to our mission and goals. While making these calls, I soon found out that some committee members were not as involved in the project because of the one negative committee member. Some members had stopped attending meetings, stopped communicating, and weren’t giving 100% for the event. After assuring them that they were valuable team members of the project and that this “negative member” would not be involved in the project’s going forward, we experienced a new level of motivation and participation that took our event to a new level of success and broke a record for attendance.
You may be in a similar leadership position whereby the success of the organization, project, or team depends on how well and how fast you make decisions when faced with challenging situations. The following five leadership skills will keep you on the leadership track during challenging situations, no matter whether your organization is for profit or non-profit, so that you can achieve your goals:
1. Live the Mission When Making Leadership Decisions
Live the mission by constantly communicating the mission so that everyone of the team understands the mission and acts to live the mission. Ask team members the following question, “What did you do today to live the mission and achieve the goals of the mission?” Develop clear and concise team member descriptions so that everyone understands how they make a difference. Motivate and reward team members based on how well they lived the mission.
2. Maintain Standards When Making Leadership Decisions
Once you and your team understand the mission, it is easier to create and live up to the standards of the mission. In the above story, when a team member began to act in negative way, I coached her on what the standard was for acceptable team behavior. I let her know both the consequences for continuing to exhibit negative behavior and rewards for being a positive team member. In this way, the choice becomes that of the team members, and you can make the leadership decision based on their future actions.
Remember, you must, as a leader, maintain a consistent standard level when interacting with all team members.
3. Seek Consensus When Making Leadership Decisions
When in a leadership position, we sometimes feel we are all alone when making tough leadership decisions. You should never feel that way because in most cases you can rely on other leaders in your organization that can share with you the information, experience, and tools to making a successful leadership choice. In the story, I consulted with the event organizers, board members, and my co-chair before communicating with the problem team member. By consulting with the other leaders in your organization, you gain a group understanding of the challenge, discuss a plan of action with the rewards and consequences, and develop a follow-up plan if needed. In other words, you are all in step when it is time for any action to be taken.
4. Quickly Take Action When Making Leadership Decisions
Now that you have gained consensus, quickly take action. The quicker you can take action, the sooner you can eliminate any further potential challenges. The faster you can make your leadership decision, the faster you can set a positive course for the behavior you want to correct. Also, when you make decisions quickly, your employees will see you as a strong, decisive leader they can trust and want to follow.
Note: Once you make the leadership decision, never regret taking action.
5. Communicate to Your Team When Making Leadership Decisions
Communicate to your team why you are making a leadership decision. This will allow your team members to be involved in the decision. Eliminate any concerns they may have while communicating how important your team members are in accomplishing the mission. You will gain valuable insight from your team members on how and why to proceed with your leadership decision.
Remember, as a leader, you will need to make tough decisions. Follow these five leadership secrets for making your leadership decisions much easier and for gaining outstanding team results.
Ed Sykes is a highly sought after leadership, motivation, stress management, customer service, and team building expert, success coach, professional speaker, and author of Jumpstart Your Greatness You can e-mail him at esykes@thesykesgrp.com, or call him at (757) 427-7032. Go to his web site, http://www.thesykesgrp.com and sign up for the free success newsletter, OnPoint.
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Are you more focused on doing coaching than on running a business of coaching?
Your Success Comes From Designing a Business, Not Just in Doing What You Do
Here’s the difference.
I’ve seen that same pattern among most of the small business owners I’ve coached, and it’s even more rampant among the coaches that I coach. Strange, isn’t it, that coaches have the same problems that their clients have? But it’s very true.
Are you more comfortable coaching than in marketing and selling? Do you know what needs to be done to successfully bring in tons of new clients in marketing, and getting them to buy in sales? And stepping back even further, from the 10,000 foot level to the 30,000 foot level, where you’ll start designing and redesigning the whole business, that’s where you’ll be asking questions like, how do I go from $150/hour to $500/hour, and then from $500/hour to $1,000/hour. As long as you are working as a coach and not as a business designer you’ll be stuck making $150/hour decisions and never selling many of those. So, in reality you are making way less than $150/hour.
In any business, the more focused the business owner is on “what they do” instead of building a business around what they do, the less likely they will succeed.
Coaches, who discover the principles to resolve this will be even better at helping their own clients design and redesign their business for more success and higher income.
More Time Thinking . . . Coaching . . . Than Designing and Then Redesigning the Business of Coaching
Do you spend more time thinking about coaching than designing and redesigning a business of coaching? How much time do you spend working on coaching, and how much time on building a business of coaching?
As a coach, don’t you work with people to help them get focused?
So, what should you be focused on as an owner of a coaching business?
Obviously you want to focus on becoming a better coach, thinking about how you coach, however, if you never spend time thinking about marketing better, selling better, and, at an even higher level, how would you design this business to make more money, to find clients that would spend more money, and on making exactly what you’d like to be earning from your coaching business, then it’s likely that you aren’t finding those answers that are even more critical to your success than coaching itself. Am I right?
Let’s look at one of my clients who was a cook in a restaurant. As the cook, he believed he could run a business better than his boss. However, do you want a bet that his focus was around making a better meal than in how to become successful at a restaurant business? So, he went across the street and started his own restaurant.
Where do you think he was working? In the kitchen! He believed that his success depended upon how well he cooked and what kinds of fantastic meals he cooked, yet no one was walking through the door. Does that sound like your coaching business?
It Doesn’t Matter How Good You Are at What You Do If You Can’t Sell Any
One of the things I preach to my clients would likely be defined as sacrilege in business schools, but it is the truth. It doesn’t matter how good you are in the kitchen (or in coaching) if you aren’t getting anyone to walk in the door (that’s marketing), and if you aren’t getting anyone to set down to buy (that’s sales).
To restate that: It doesn’t matter how good of a coach you are if no one is walking in to discover you, nor to buy your services. You could be the best, or the worst, and your results will be exactly the same if no one is there to buy it.
You Can Have a Successful Business If You Can Get Tons of People Walking in and Buying Even If You Aren’t Good at Delivering
In fact, let’s look at it from the other side. Let’s say that you are absolutely fantastic at marketing and sales, and aren’t any good in the kitchen (or coaching) at all. In that case you are good at getting people in the door and getting them to set down and buy, but the food (or your coaching) is absolutely horrible. The money is flowing (imagine what that would be like for coaching), yet the food is horrible. What happens is that there are a ton of people coming through the door and buying, but they’ll never come back. As long as you are out there marketing and selling there are still people flowing through the door and you are successful.
In no way am I suggesting that you do it this way, only emphasizing to you that without marketing and sales you’ll never be successful, and that with them you could be even if you aren’t any good at coaching, so marketing (the ability to get tons of people in the door), and selling (getting those that do come through the door to buy) are critical, and the ability to design and redesign a business that includes all of the pieces of your business, marketing, sales, coaching are all critical pieces.
Coaching, and how good you are at it, doesn’t even come into the picture until you’ve got them coming in the door, wanting what you have, and then getting them to buy. Sounds logical, however, most coaches start with coaching and never have many clients.
How to Become the Top 1% of All Coaches
Do, you know the statistics are that over 90% of all coaches and consultants will fail within months, and that, of those that do succeed, most will never make more than $20K? Your success will come only when you can get your hands around the BUSINESS of coaching, learn what makes less than 1% of all coaches the top earners, and design the business that not only works in all of those areas, and then focus on how to make that business deliver EXACTLY what you want it to in dollars and cents, and in the time you want to put into it.
One of the coaches I worked with was having problems getting enough people to even show an interest, let alone someone who would buy. She kept saying, but I’m good at coaching, but I can’t get anyone interested in coaching. When I finally got her to look at how to refocus on the RIGHT customer, how to sell, and THEN even how this business was to make her more and more in less and less time, she changed everything and went from less than $10K in a year to $6,000 an hour. Yes, I said that correctly.
It wasn’t just learning to market and sell, which is very important, but it also was a total redirection of what she was doing, and how she was doing it. It was redesigning her business so that it will deliver the dollars you want in the time you want to spend, and the way you want to do it.
Instead of focusing on selling at $5,000 per client, which wasn’t working the way she was doing it, she developed a marketing funnel that leads people in steps toward coaching. Each step moved from giving a free taste of coaching, to a low cost group session, to full blown coaching. She’s now making $5,000 an hour, not just per job, doing Intro to Coaching at $250 a month for groups of about 100, and has a waiting list for her one-on-one coaching, which, by the way, she now charges a lot more for and spends very little time doing. She spend 4 1-hour sessions a month with about 100 people, $25,000 a month total income for 4 hours of work. And that leads to a waiting list of people wanting her coaching.
Your Job Isn’t Just to Coach . . . It’s Designing and Redesigning a Successful Coaching Business
So, your job isn’t to coach. It is to design, and redesign a business of coaching that delivers exactly the dollars you want in the time you want to put into this. And, of course go do it.
It’s designing the business at the highest level around what you want to make and how you’ll do it, and then breaking it down to how many leads are needed from marketing, what percentage of those will be closed in sales, and, finally the delivery, your coaching.
Do you know how to deliver exactly that many leads each and every week?
Are you delivering that many each and every week?
Is your sales process converting exactly the percentage of those leads into sales that are necessary to hit your target sales in number of customers and dollars per customer?
Do you know how to fix your marketing to make it deliver at that rate, or better?
Do you know how to fix your sales to deliver at that rate, or better?
What are you going to do next to start delivering on all of those critical goals? Those are critical in that if you deliver each and every one of them each and every week, you will get the dollars you want this year in the time you are willing to put into it.
And, if you miss even one of these goals you not only won’t hit your goals for amount sold in the time you want to put into it, but you are likely going to fail in business. That’s critical!
Do you know how to make marketing work to deliver the number of leads a month you need?
Do you know how to close 40-50% of those leads?
What would it be worth to you to be able to do that?
So, would you like to do a quick assessment of your critical business goals? The things that are absolutely critical to your business?
Be sure to look for the next article, “Assessing You and Your business success, The Critical Issues of Coaching Business Success” to grade just how well you are doing at building a successful coaching business.
Do you want to learn more about how to increase your coaching business?
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Alan Boyer coach’s coaches, who want more business than they can handle, or at least more than they imagined…before this…..The reports have been “5-10 times more clients in just a few weeks, and still growing.
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