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How much equity should I give investors

I am seeking a $2M investment to take my patented product to next level. I have been told my product is unique and can be used in a variety of industries by both commercial and residential users. ...
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Finding Investors/partners to fulfill the following needs

You've probably heard this before, but I came up with the idea for great product and I developed it. I measured the demand for it personally, by demonstrating it to the target audience and got a ...
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Percentage allocation for my startup reasonable?

I've developed a new product that I am going to be selling and putting on the market. I had been planning on funding everything with my own personal savings. I have a friend (Mike) who believes in the ...
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Thoughts on offering Software development in return for Equity for a tech startup

I have been developing some software for an online venture in return for significant equity. I am working with another founder who is developing the business. The current thinking is to value our ...
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Investor perspective on non-dilutive equity? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it unattractive to investors if I have a 51% Anti-Dilution Provision? What is the investor perspective on non-dilutive equity? I am in a situation where the Founder ...
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Should I give an investor equity for a short term investment?

We are not so much a start up company; been doing business for over 7 years and started off with an investor which was considered a loan with interest. Now we are up to receive anywhere from ...
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Equity distribution when taking investor / partner to develop a successful existing business

i am the sole shareholder of a well-established service business with 10-years of expertise and recognition in our industry locally. We have an opportunity to grow by creating multiple new locations. ...
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Losing Controlling Interest in a company, can that be bad?

Basically I have been lucky to get spotted by some angel investors and will be signing £60,000 for 60% of my current business come thursday, which will really boost my start-up massively and ...
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Investor want high stake and I need money

I love startups but have no prior startup experience. Till now I have only built stuff like mobile apps (as part time gigs) and worked as a consultant for many large enterprises. I have this new idea ...
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equity arrangement for “Proof of Concept” before going to VC

Q.1 What value would - $100k cash investment by founders, resource time and development of IT and IP in testing proof of concept, and securing $100k revenue from testing PoC - equate to prospective ...
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How much equity should an active investor get in an early stage of a startup?

I'm the only executive, I have 100% of the shares, I have 4 employees.I built the prototype on my own and I'm almost launching. This person has intense experience in tech but not as an investor. ...
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Startup - C - Corp structure - How do we offer equity for seed investments?

We have a startup with some interested investors - (friends, family, etc). We have a C - Corp structure. We want to take in some of these investments - problem is that we have spoken to 2 lawyers ...
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Divide equity among founders, investors and advisors [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? Here is how our startup is dividing equity among Founders and Investors: 2 Founders (43% and 25%), ...
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Start up valuation - how much equity

Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea. They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier ...
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How does one pay back an investor?

I am starting a fashion retail business this year, and I need a total initial investment of $300,000. I don't know about financial issues regarding shares, equity and dividend. I'm currently looking ...
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Where can I find detailed information about a company's stock structure prior to their IPO?

I'm curious to know about the stock structures of a lot of companies. For example Marc Pincus of Zynga has preferred stock, where each of his share's voting power is 70x greater than those that are ...
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How do you respond to an unfriendly VC?

I contacted a VC after being introduced by a mutual friend. A couple of days ago I received an email with an arrogant & a little too proud attitude. My options: Ignore him (I'm not dependent on ...
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How should you value a SaaS company?

Given the following assumptions: Assume total investment (founders + seed) to a SaaS company is 100K After one year, the monthly net profit is 5K, and it is growing at around 10% monthly. What ...
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Need simple pre-launch website to attract mgmt. team, investors, and co-marketing alliances

I am looking for a simple website solution for my pre-launch (and pre-funding) start-up to do the following: Introduce the business without totally giving the concept away. Have a web address as a ...
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My sales person (independent, not employee) wants to be an angel investor

I started a surveillance technology company in May 2010. Since the beginning, we have been working with a person that has been in the security industry for quite a while. He was providing some input, ...
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Startup Company and Equity for Members

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I am looking for some advice on how to setup equity for members of my company, which is a location-based social network for iOS devices. As it stands ...
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Structuing Equity Sale in Early Tech Startup

I have a few Angel investors, and a meeting next week with serveral VCs (brought to the table by the primary Angel), and I am trying to put together the equity sale package to present to everyone (VCs ...
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25% for angel investor for 20k$

These days I am in process of raising 20k$ for my project (a facebook application), that requires at least 30k$ (10k of which I am able to come up with myself). When negotiating with an angel investor ...
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How can a past employee protect themselves against share dilution?

What is share dilution? How can I, as a past employee of a company where I exercised my share options, know if my shares are subject to dilution? How can I protect myself in future from share ...
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I want to start an investment club

Ok gang, your input will be greatly appreciated here. I have convinced 4 of my friends and relatives to join me in founding an investment club ( a la private equity or VC) the idea is very simple: ...
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Getting investors for the first time - how does financing work?

So how typically does financing work. Are investors basically giving me a loan that I have to pay back? Are they buying equity (so that upon business failure, nobody owes anybody anything)? Are ...