Reflection Six In Chapters 9 and 10, Rao touches on two more strategies that finance-smart entrepreneurs use: grow with angels you can control and seek non-VC VCs first. To grow with angels you can control, you may need to take less funding initially and keep...

Reflection one: Want to become an entrepreneur that succeeds in the value of their business becoming a billion dollars, while remaining in control of their business?  Then follow the advice from Dileep Rao in Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs:  Venture...

  Reflection Ten In Chapters 17, 18, and 19, Rao expands on two more strategies that finance-smart entrepreneurs use: pace to lead the industry and adjust to take-off with limited cash. Chapter 19 concluded the book. To lead your industry, in Chapter 17 Rao...

  Reflection Nine In Chapters 15 and 16, Rao expands on two more strategies that finance-smart entrepreneurs use: focus to dominate with less and sell direct to connect with your market. Preceding Chapter 15, Rao describes Billion-Dollar entrepreneurs and the...

  Reflection Eight In Chapters 13 and 14, Rao expands on two more strategies that finance-smart entrepreneurs use: using VC intelligently and developing the right capital structure. To use VCs intelligently, Rao says to do the following: *be in the right emerging...

Reflection Seven In Chapters 11 and 12, Rao expands on two more strategies that finance-smart entrepreneurs use: seeking scalable debt and choosing smarter instruments. Rao explains that some loans grow with your business as they are automatically refinanced as asset...

Reflection Five For this reflection, let’s look at two more strategies that Rao says finance-smart entrepreneurs use: channeling equity and using alt-VC first. As Rao mentioned before, 99.9% of entrepreneurs don’t get VC and 80% of those who do get it end up failing,...

  Reflection Four In this reflection, let’s focus on two more strategies that Rao says finance-smart entrepreneurs use: focusing on cash flow till Aha (when a venture’s potential and/or leadership skills are evident) and financing appropriately to the stage. Rao...

Reflection Three In continuation of Rao’s description of finance-smart entrepreneurs, he explains that they use the following strategies: *prove bottom-up strategies *focus on cash flow till Aha (when a venture’s potential and/or leadership skills are evident)...

  Reflection Two As mentioned in the previous reflection, one way Rao explains being finance-smart, is to be capital smart.  In this reflection, we learn to understand that before seeking capital, Rao says entrepreneurs need to develop capital-smart skills such...