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Zach Ferres is the CEO of Coplex, a nationally-ranked Startup Accelerator that partners with industry experts to start successful tech companies. Coplex has helped start over 275 startup companies around the globe that have an aggregate market value of over $3.8B. Coplex has been featured in VentureBeat, Inc, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Next Web, NPR, Mashable, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Zach sold his first technology company at the age of 24 and was recognized as one of the top 33 student entrepreneurs in the world. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ohio Northern University with a minor in Mathematics and Entrepreneurship. Outside of Coplex, Zach is an award-winning speaker, a runner, and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine.
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Fundraising for a startup is an involved process. At any step of the way, the system may falter and lead to the company missing out on significant funding. There's no step-by-step methodology for developing a startup funding plan. Each startup is unique, both in the ideas they present and the promise that they make to customers. However, for fundraising, it's not the customers' input that matters. It's what the investors think of the company. A startup's fundraising efforts hinges on its ability to make itself attractive as a business idea. To help, 12 members of Young Entrepreneur Council reflect on the big mistakes that they made while fundraising, and offer advice on how today's startup entrepreneurs can avoid falling into the same trap.
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Coplex
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Coplex is a nationally-ranked Startup Accelerator that works with industry experts to start successful tech companies. In our structured 9-month program, we help take industry expert founding teams from idea to seed-ready. The program is built on a proven lean startup process and provides support with product development, go-to-market, private events, mentorship, immersive education, fundraising, and much more. Coplex has helped start over 275 startup companies around the globe. Our startups have raised over $800M in VC and have an aggregate market value of over $3.8B. We’ve been featured in VentureBeat, Inc, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Next Web, NPR, Mashable, USA Today, and the Washington Post.