{"id":3719,"date":"2025-01-03T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2025-01-03T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:10:06","slug":"thoughts-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angel and Pre-Seed investing has been growing and will continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competition for dollars will continue to be a challenge, especially for first time founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team for young companies is paramount. They need to understand the problem that started the company and have tremendous synergy with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expect the business model to change to meet the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know the market entry point and how to get paying customer #1. Most companies that earned angel funding in 2024 already had revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Financial projections are about how to get to be a sustainable business and how you are thinking about the market and your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In looking at the dwindling number of personal blog posts from myself and other blogs that I used to follow, <em>this style of blog is dead<\/em>. There are too many other sites for real-time content and easier to produce formats. <strong>Long live the blog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel and Pre-Seed investing has been growing and will continue to grow. Competition for dollars will continue to be a challenge, especially for first time founders. The team for young companies is paramount. They need to understand the problem that started the company and have tremendous synergy with each other&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}