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My 2 cents, as a first generation entrepreneur.
Startups, especially early stage and first time entrepreneurs need a lot of good mentoring than huge investment. Money at a very early stage (pre-revenue, pre-product, pre-customer) can bring a lot of obstacles as well.
1. First and the biggest obstacle. You need lot of energy and time to raise funds. Indian VCs have a tendency to take a lot of time in evaluating a company before funding them. This could lead to you losing a lot of crucial time at an early stage of your startup. The time when you should be searching for new customers, features, and PR instead of working on your Business Plan PPT, financial models, exist strategy. Yes you heard it right, exist strategy. Few VCs will ask them.Distractions are your worst enemy, and going after VCs at an early stage can be a big distraction.
2. Try to ensure that you require money to grow, not to survive. Your venture should be making enough money to at least fund your current operations. And trust me on this; going after customers is much easier than going after VCs.
3. Work on a milestone not on a date when you should start looking for funds. The milestone could be anything, 10,000th registered member, 100th paying client, revenue of $200K per annum, 1 million pageviews etc. But get that milestone first, before even working on your business plan PPT. This will help you focus all your energy on your venture.
4. Look for mentors, advisors and friends rather than investors.
5. Keep your costs as low as you can, you don’t need rackspace servers to start with. Even Dreamhost account, or Godaddy servers can do the job for few months. 15’’ CRTs and Linus running on celeron machines are good, if you are going to spend most of the time in programming.
Indian startup making some noise (http://www.blogertizeworld.com)
Its a 7 month old blogger startup which has raised capital to run its business from bloggers themselves
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/banker-for-bloggers/354086/ (Apr 06th)
http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2009/feb/09blog-your-way-to-your-bank.htm (Feb 9th)
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