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How to Get 1% Better at Closing Investors When Fundraising

September 12, 2022 by OptionsAndTraders

If you’re looking to grow your business sustainably with a low CAC, join us at AreaHype. 
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Kim Kardashian, reality TV star and entrepreneur is putting her finger in the cookie jar!

She is joining in on the action with her new venture firm SKKY partners.Teaming up with Jay Sammons, a former Carlyle Group partner.

Yes! They are going to be Co-Founders / Co-Managing Directors!

Their thesis primarily focuses on: entertainment, consumer products, hospitality, luxury, and digital commerce.

This is great to hear, but deep down, how do you actually attract their attention?

It’s 2022 and investor sentiment has drastically dropped due to post-pandemic collateral damage, a crash in the crypto market, and the cascading repositioning of stock portfolios.

You’ve probably been told no over 100 times this year. If you haven’t been told no, you aren’t working hard enough to fundraise.

Don’t worry, it’s part of the process.

Why are they rejecting you? Why are they saying no? Why is it so damn hard to fundraise in 2022? Isn’t there a ton of dry powder? How do some founders raise millions of dollars without a product?

The answer is simple. “Make something people want.” 
— Paul Graham Co-Founder of Y-Combinator.

Guess what? There are tons of duplicate ideas out there, it’s almost 2023, and most of the solutions we need to propel society forward have already been created.

This leads to over-saturation, a distaste for ideas that are too similar to one another. It’s very rare to be 100% unique and unlike anything out there, because we naturally learn from other people’s mistakes and build something better.

How do you stand out?

Outside of a really great idea, you need to be sustainable. Investors don’t want to risk a ton of money on something that might work. They want to be pretty damn sure that something will work.

Simple put, you need to de-risk the investor.

This is easily done by having a low customer acquisition cost (CAC).

Why are you burning so much money trying to get customers to figure out who the hell you are?

Think about it, what the hell are you doing spending $3000+ a month on ads that lead to less than 1% conversion? Is this sustainable?

Let’s do the math, You pay $3000 to potentially get 5,000 more views?

You convert 1% of them, or 5000 x 0.01 = 50 new customers.

In order to break even, you need to make at least $100 on average per new customer. Can you do that month over month? Some people can, some people can’t.

Most of us can’t.

The system is designed to make you believe that you can obtain more customers if you keep throwing more and more money into ads.

Let’s think about that.

Take the risk, and throw more money to hope that you don’t have overlapping views of previous customers. Hope that you can maintain your growth.

If you ask any successful investor, hope doesn’t pay the bills. Results do.

So hope doesn’t mean jack when you are burning more money to try and make it. This is why a lot of startups fail.

The solution is simple: grow sustainably by reducing your CAC and becoming profitable sooner. Make sure you can get money in the bank, and make sure you aren’t just burning it on hope.

This will significantly de-risk your prospective investor, and make it easier for you to raise capital.

Think about it, wouldn’t you want to spend less money to make more money? If you tell an investor that you make more money and spend less to acquire a customer than your competitors, it’s a no-brainer!

We figured out a way to do this at AreaHype.

Currently, all forms of marketing and advertising charge businesses upfront for high CAC and little hope.

Marketing Secret: working with creators delivers the best conversion rates. Unfortunately, the platforms they use still rely on legacy technology which charges businesses upfront.

We figured out a sustainable way to deliver GUARANTEED results before businesses pay with our 1-click routing and checkout.

Skip the BS, stop wasting money, and don’t pay for hope. Pay for results.

Sign up for our waitlist today.

We will drastically reduce your CAC while helping you grow sustainably.

“Get paid to live life!”

Ken Ma — CEO | Co-Founder of AreaHype

https://medium.com/@HypeKen/how-to-get-1-better-at-closing-investors-when-fundraising-fd8f09a2298b

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Filed Under: AreaHype, Education, Error, Key to Success, Marketing, Mentor, Millionaire Mindset, SEO, Whimstay, yolofounders Tagged With: Angel Deals, Angel Investing, AreaHype, founders, Fundraising, HypeX, Mentor, OptionsandTraders, Selftalk, SEO, Startup, StatisRing, Success, Whimstay, yolofounders

NEW Best Community for Startup Founders via Discord!

December 28, 2021 by OptionsAndTraders

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Filed Under: Key to Success, Marketing, Mentor, Millionaire Mindset, Mistakes, WORK Tagged With: Angel Deals, Angel Investing, Day Trade, founders, HypeX, Mentor, Mindset, OptionsandTraders, Startup, startups, Success, Trade, yolofounders

OTN – Networking and Advising Run-Time

June 26, 2021 by OptionsAndTraders

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OTN – Networking and Advising Run-Time #angelinvesting #investments #privateequity

Today, we have Auriah Hubbard the founder of Run-Time and Ken Ma, the founder of the Options and Traders Network.

Auriah is seeking cofounders, advisers, and investors to help create a mobile dog gym fleet in the Oklahoma area.

Find out more on her website: https://www.runtimedogs.com/

If you are interested in being vetted by the OTN or you know somebody seeking help.

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– Ken

Filed Under: Mentor, Millionaire Mindset Tagged With: Angel Deals, Angel Investing, Networking, Startup, startups

OTN – Vetting an investment in The Server Room Pre-Seed

June 15, 2021 by OptionsAndTraders

OTN – Vetting an investment in The Server Room Pre-Seed

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Today, we have Dillon Johnson, the founder of The Server Room and Ken Ma, the founder of the Options and Traders Network.

Dillon is wanting to create an internet café for gaming in Michigan. He is in need of some guidance, investors, and support to make his dream become a reality!

Server Room’s Pitch Deck

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– Ken

Filed Under: Mentor, Millionaire Mindset Tagged With: Angel Deals, Angel Investing, Startup, startups

How to Turn a $100 investment into $10,000 with some work!

June 27, 2020 by OptionsAndTraders

Hey guys!

I want to present a concept that will completely leave you mind blown!

This concept is completely different from stocks and options!

I am sure you guys have heard of companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, Lyft, and GrubHub.

These companies all have one thing in common.

They were all once private equity angel investments limited to accredited investors.

In 2016, the JOBS act was officially mandated.

This stands for jump start our business startup act!

This allows for ordinary people to participate in angel investing.

If you were to lucky enough to invest in Amazon in the early 2000s, you would have received a 145,000X return!

I don’t know about you, but $1000 turning into $145,000,000 within a decade with you absolutely doing nothing but investing seems like an AMAZING DEAL!

Amazon was actually the first company to make multiple billionaires from $10,000 investments!

Angel investing seems complicated, but let me make it simple for you.

  1. You do your due diligence and find a company with a promising idea, team, and proven track record.
  2. You invest an amount that you wouldn’t mind potentially losing (not all investments are 100%)
  3. You receive private equity shares and updates about how the company is doing.
  4. You receive a large amount of money from the company if they have an exit, some companies also offer dividends + equity shares (SUPER GOOD DEAL).

As a member of the options and traders network, I will be personally walking you through the steps and answering any questions you have!

Companies exit via mergers, acquisitions, or going public, aka an IPO on the stock market.

If you invested in a company which takes 5 years or longer to exit, you qualify for Capital Gains Exemption IRC 1202.

This exemption allows you to be 100% tax exempt up to $10,000,000 on capital gain!

If you invested $1000 in Amazon and received $145,000,000. You would only pay taxes on $134,000,000! The first $10,000,000 is exempt, and your $1000 investment is exempt.

Here is another perk for startup investments.

If your company exits before 5 years, let’s say within 3 years. You do not qualify for 100% tax exemption on the capital gain.

However! You qualify for the rollover perk IRC 1045.

This allows you to roll over the money you made from the initial investment into other startups. The perk here is, the duration of your initial investment can be converted into other startups under the same IRC 1202 mandate!

Let’s simplify this. You make $10,000 from your $1000 investment in 3 years. You can choose to cash out and pay tax on $9000, or roll over your capital gains into newer startups. If you chose to rollover your gains, you only need to wait 2 more years or greater, depending on the exit of what you rollover your money into to qualify for 100% tax exemption up to $10,000,000.

This is a pure cash generator, you can rollover funds from one investment into another! Now if you make $10,000 from the first startup, you can easily roll that over into 10 other startups that look promising. Now the gains of $1000 x 10 startups with the potential of 1000X can scale quite drastically!

If you lose your money on the investment and the company tanks, you qualify for IRC 1244.

This allows you to write off the amount of losses on your tax return!

If you invest $1000 and 2 years later the company goes bankrupt.

You can write off $1000 from your tax return!

Talk about minimizing your risk!

I am going to be presenting startup companies which my mentors and I have conducted hours of due diligence on to our network to private discord members. You will want to become a member if you want to get in on this action!

Stay tuned, learn more, ask questions. Become a 6 digit survivor. Check out the live stream.

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– Ken

Filed Under: Key to Success, Mentor, Millionaire Mindset Tagged With: Angel Deals, Angel Investing, Millionaire, OptionsandTraders, Startup

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