Slide 9: Financial Road Map
An active professional investor receives hundreds of funding proposals a year, with many showing an average of more than $100 million in sales by Year 5. And most entrepreneurs state that their projections are conservative. As mentioned, if you are pitching a risky technology deal, $100 million is the amount that investors want to see.1 As a result, that’s the amount that they do see, including on your own Slide 9, the Financial Road Map.
So what do you do?
It’s a tough nut to crack. If you show $20 million in sales by Year 5, they may believe it, but they won’t write a check. If you show $100 million, they laugh to ...
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