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Baqar Iftikhar Naqvi is the founder and CEO of Upriver Ecommerce, an online sales accelerator firm and can guide entrepreneurs on how to make their firms grow.He holds a BTech in textile technology from the Central Textile Institute and has a master's degree in marketing and merchandising from the National Institute of Fashion Technology.He has 23 years of experience in the consumer products and retail industry.... more

Asked by Anonymous - Feb 23, 2024Hindi

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I am 38, a research analyst with 15 plus years of work experience. I completed my masters in finance from the University of North Texas in 2008. I have a corpus of Rs 50 lakh that I would like to invest in a consultancy start-up but I need an additional investment of 75 lakhs to build the company. How can I pitch the idea to investors without giving away any equity? I am a first-generation entrepreneur. Can you share some tips that can be helpful?

Ans: Sorry, I didn't understand your question. If you are pitching to investors for money you will have to part with equity. I'd you don't want to dilute equity at this stage, start with the corpus that you have and build a bootstrapped company. Consulting does not need to much capital anyways.

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Amit - i believe i have a great idea and a execution plan in internet technologies. how can one go about pitching for funding without risking to divulge too much

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Hi Chandru, We are working on 2 startup ideas which we are confident enough but sometimes we feel stuck when it comes to getting funding or how do we get funding from different investors What's your suggestion on this and we really do have a great product idea. Also, we do have a different business which is doing profita but we are unable to scale it up. How do we achieve this

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Hi Mr. Baqar Iftikhar Naqvi, I have an excellent business idea which can change the world. I need a strong investor for execution of this business model. Can you please help me to get an investor or multiple investors (not meant for crowd funding) to start this business. The business model is meant to capture the global market and needs the investor with more than 500 cr. INR capacity. Thanks and regards Indranil Bhattacharya

Ans: Unfortunately, at the stage you are in, no external person can help you. Investors bet on entrepreneurs and want to hear directly from them, at the idea stage. They want to understand your clarity of though, execution capabilities etc.

You will have to directly pitch to the investors.

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The following is a sequence of educational institutions and their respective specializations:

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