Questions related to receiving capital from external sources.
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Who is investing in EdTech? [closed]
I have a start-up in edtech, located in eastern Europe. I'm not supposed to promote it here, i know :)
The question is, probably someone knows the list of active investors in educational technology ...
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What are the most successful University seed-stage venture capital funds? [closed]
I'm trying to benchmark 'best-practices' in university seed-stage venture capital funds. That is, university funds that invest in inventions, businesses, or products created by one's own alum.
One ...
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Investing in startups online
I've seen plenty of websites that utilize philanthropic crowd-funding, but I'm unable to find any websites that allow people to purchase equity online. Are there any? If not, for what reason?
Note: ...
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How do investors feel about investing in an outsourced MVP?
We are a semi non-technical team, that has access to technical people that will oversee the technical side of the build. Our thoughts, are to use the working MVP to validate the idea, and hopefully ...
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about launching concurrent projects
yes, I have a couple of them that I do not want to give up any. Supposing they all got very positive feedback from very initial surveys, I would like to request your views on the possibility of their ...
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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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Funding Campaign Guidance
I just launched a funding campaign at SellAnApp. I am emailing multiple blogs and forums to help me spread the word and gain some great traction but I am running out of ideas. If this was you running ...
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I built a very profitable start-up business for my employer over the last 6 years & need HELP! [closed]
I need to know if I have just cause to sue. AZ is a right-to-work state, but I built a complete start-up business from "nothing with little or no support from the owners of this new business".
I was ...
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Have good MVP, need capital to grow, new to getting funding
We have what we believe is a pretty solid MVP for a enterprise software product. Without much advertising, we've had people find our website and purchase and use the product, and the initial feedback ...
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What is a lead investor?
On TechCrunch, I often see articles saying
Company FooBar raised $10M in a Series A round, lead by Ventures Inc.
In this context, who are "Ventures Inc"? What does it mean that they lead the ...
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Meeting with “right” folks?
I have developed a brand new product that meets all the financial (cost / price / marketetr size, etc.) hurdles, as well as the operational constraints (size, weight, strength, portability, ...
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Sharing too much/too little information
I am a recent co-founder of a local start up called HeartCode in Singapore and we're looking for funding to support our operations and product.
We have a very strong start-up idea and I took the ...
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how to get money to open a retail store?
I am on optometrist and want to start my own business and stop working for others. In my world, the owner of the optical pays the doctor (me) a salary and makes a killing on my labor in the form of ...
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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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Do I need funding? If yes What type of?
I am going to become first generation entrepreneur. I don't understand the actual meaning of VC, angel funding, seed funding. etc.
Where can I know the meaning of all these type of funding?
Which ...
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What Should I do as Founder
Hope you can help me out with little advice here. I recently founded a website and I have no technical programming. Perhaps I was lucky that I found a rich partner who can't work full time. But he has ...
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SEEKING FOR START-UP FUNDING [closed]
I am an entrepreneur in Zimbabwe, Africa seeking for funding to start up an import business of mobbile phones and accessories in our country from China and Dubai. How can i easily get a partner or ...
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How much equity should these founders have? [duplicate]
Me and my 3 partners are in the early stages of a gaming start up company. We are now looking to split the initial equity in the company because we are not all on equal terms.
Person#1 is an ...
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What type of lawyer do I need?
My business partner and I are looking to start a gymnastics school. We have been told by the bank that we need 100% collateral. It is not uncommon for owners to seek parents of current gymnasts to ...
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How to fire a co-funder on non funded company
How to fire a co-founder, which means mainly how to remove him from the funding process. We decided to get ride of one of our co-founder, we didn't fund yet, and we wanted to give him 20% share, ...
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When and how do I approach an investor?
I've been working on my startup for about 3 months now. Currently we have two active team members: a backend developer and a frontend developer (myself). Now we're looking to get investments so that ...
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Get foreign investment (US VCs and Angels) for startup in Europe
We are a startup in Europe. (A Saas music web app + mobile app and we are now exiting from stealth mode.)
I wonder how to reach US Venture Capitalists and Angels from Europe. We are incorporating ...
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Do startups need to incorporate to receive funding?
If a startup is going to take venture capital, is it necessary to incorporate so shares can be exchanged to the VC firm?
Is it the same with angel or individual investors?
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I am going to launch Product beta version next month. Whats my next steps? [closed]
What should be our next steps regarding marketing, funding etc..
please give your valuable suggestions...
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Different stages of VC finance and were the company / product is in its life / development cycle
You hear a lot in the media about _ raised a stage A round of x million, or ___ just got seed funding from a group of angel investors.
But what's never explained is the stage that these companies / ...
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Outsourcing development with friends and family money
My cofounders and I have bootstrapped so far to get a hardcoded (doesn't connect with a server) iOS prototype for $10k from a local outsourced developer. We have no traction yet and are in need of ...
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How is an ownership group formed?
I am interested in forming an "ownership group". I see the term all over the place, especially in sports, but can't seem to find any details on how these groups are initially formed. Is it a legal ...
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Funding for developing a mobile application
We are college students currently developing an iPad application and seek a small investment to complete the development before submitting to the app store. We have tried several avenues for asking ...
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How will I know when my company is ready to receive an investment?
How will I know when my company is ready to receive an investment?
I am starting a company and have bootstrapped it so far. I have produced four versions of the demo. The first fully-working version ...
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Is it okay to shop around for incubators
I'm meeting with a local incubator tomorrow and I would like to know if it's okay to tell them I'm going to "shop around".
I want to talk to other incubators and see what they can bring to the ...
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What are some creative ways for a cash poor start up to compensate a designer?
We are in need of a designer for our start up, but we are pretty much cash poor. I have been talking to a designer for a few days, and he really wants to help as he loves our idea. He is very ...
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Is it possible to get funding to buy a Canadian non-profit company and turn it for-profit [closed]
I'm going to be vague and have used a new anonymous account to hide my identity because I don't want the other parties involved to know about my question.
I'm a developer who has been working on ...
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Does BizSpark preclude you from accepting funding elsewhere?
I am going to embark very soon on a software venture (have been a consultant and employee up until now).
I see advantages in signing up for Microsoft's BizSpark.
However, I wonder if doing so would ...
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Kickstarter in EU : still not possible?
I've seen a few posts on this site about crowdsourcing which imply that it's not possible to use kickstarter outside the US.
I'm wondering where does this information come from ? Any sources ? I ...
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Going Public Through a Reverse Merger - Capital Pool Company
I am with a one year old startup. We had an offer to get public a couple of days after we started the company and nowadays more and more people ask me that. Reverse mergers and Capital Pool Companies ...
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How do I specifically start a business as a government defense supplier?
No matter what shape the economy is in, the government will always have at least a few if not many contracts with defense contractors.
I would like to start a business as a supplier to these ...
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Should an entrepreneur pitch foreign investors
Should an entrepreneur pitch investors from other countries to invest in his venture? Are VCs actually interested in these kind of opportunities or it is expected to be a waste of time?
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When is a niche too small?
I'm interested in developing a product for the sport of paintball. It has an estimated 10+ million participants (3rd largest extreme sport), though I'd be targeting the real enthusiasts of the sport ...
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What if we got funded?
What if we got seed funding (say $350k) and needed to find an iOS developer and backend web developer right away.
Do you:
a) Hire an agency to help develop the app
b) Find a freelancer to develop
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Is this break down of startups by stage normal?
Ran across this breakdown of startups applications (roughly 7000 "startups" in the database) that appears to show that less than 10% of startups looking for funding have any revenue. Seems hard to ...
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How important is market size? And how small is too small?
I have been working on a startup idea for the past few years. The prototype is out there and I have a few hundred people using it. My adsense revenue is about as much as I spend on costs. At this ...
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Are there European Union funds for tech startups?
We are a young team willing to launch a tech startup (we have the product ready), and we are looking for funding to develop it further. We are looking to take advantage of European Union ...
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Should i give 3% equity to this Incubator?
I have recently submitted an application to receive a government grant for funding. There is a requirement, that is to be submit via an incubator.
I contacted an incubator and they are ok with ...
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How to get funding without a plan?
I really don't have a "plan" right now, but have been offered a meeting to pitch to an entrepreneur that has already sold at least two companies they founded each for over 100 million. They know I ...
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How do I pursue funding for a vertical product?
There are many resources about how to pursue funding for horizontal products, often software that can be used by a large number of people. These are problems that investors can understand personally, ...
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Funding with no revenue but have traction
If you have a startup that is free for all users and does not generate revenue, but the site/product is used by a lot of people so you have a lot of users, would a VC potentially give you funding even ...
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Technology Accelerator or Bootstrapping
I have a few ideas for a company, and plan to get started sometime this fall. I know of an accelerator that focuses on this vertical, and I have contacts there so reaching out to them would be pretty ...
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Founder Anti-Dilution Clause
We are 3 founding partners in an early stage start up. We are all good friends, and just started to negotiate an equity agreement. Our goal is to be fair, but also be fundable, as we will be ...
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overcoming permission matters founding in another country
This is about starting elsewhere and not in the country one lives in. The reason is that there are countries that appear as a better starting place than the country I live in; livelier, more open ...
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The Dream Team - What investors look for?
I know that the first thing investors look for is a good strong team. Until recently, I thought that just meant the founder and co-founders. However, I was just checking out angelist, and most of ...
