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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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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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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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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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5answers
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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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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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1answer
52 views
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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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 ...
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Just went live and need funding- what do I need to prove?
I just launched an online platform that allows inidividuals to video chat based on their interests. Unfortunately, Sean Parker launched a similar concept last week but it just means we are both on the ...
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1answer
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I ran an ad and now an investor wants to invest in my project and he wants to do several things first. Is this an odd request?
He wants to open a Chase Bank account for the investment. So my question is how do I protect myself if for some reason this person is trying to lauder money through my project? What protection can I ...
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What is the procedure to finance a project?
A wealth individual would like to invest into a project where he would provide the funds and I would provide the management of the project. However, I am not too sure of the correct procedure to start ...
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How Many Seed Investors Should we Approach
We are building a startup, we are a few weeks away from our MVP launch. We have had some initial positive investor conversations with an angel and a couple VCs. One large VC that generally doesn't do ...
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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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Where can I find international seed investors?
We have just lauched a website for our upcoming SPARQL Database Server. We would like to attract the interest of international seed investors, but we are not sure where to start looking. We are based ...
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1answer
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News source of companies who have received funding
As a CEO of a startup, I would like to stay informed about potential competitors. One source of such information would be to read news about startups that have received funding from investors. I am, ...
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What happens to the angel's / A round investor's stake on subsequent rounds, in the Valley?
As far as I understand, when the next round happens, the startup emits new shares that are sold to new investors under newly negotiated valuation.
Does this lead to the previous investor's shares ...
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Should you try not to give a concrete number to a potential investor?
When raising funds for a start-up with a working prototype/alpha product, should you refrain from asking for a specific amount? Or should you provide a preferred amount, and a backup plan for a ...
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When asking for funds from an investor, how do I decide my own salary?
I will be speaking with a potential investor soon. And I will be quitting my job to run this startup. I will also be the only one running the startup for at least the first 6 months. How do I decide ...
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What to include in our funding requirements?
We're a small group of IT students and recently we came up with an idea that we're going to pitch with business plan in an event hoping to get feedback and funding from investors. (Ok, I read that ...
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Age of founder > brick wall (in front of?) angel investors/vc's
Legally speaking it isn't a problem that i'm seventeen years old, in my country it is allowed to start a business at 16+. A cantonal judge removed some other boundaries so that I'm now fully ...
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How and When to Raise Funds For Your Company
Funding your company is an important part of your startup and expansion strategy. It's a broad topic that has a lot of aspects including: keeping your idea secret, seed funding, angels, venture ...
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How long to wait for investing?
I'm the tech guy and doing a lot of technical development for the startup.
How long does one wait around for the business people to get funding from VC's and Angels? is there a ballpark of how long a ...
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Is it possible to get funding before any sale?
I am curious, is it possible to get funding from investor before doing any sale? Any experience?
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When pitching to potentials investors, should I let them come to me with offers individually or have a set price?
I am about to put together a investor presentation for my company. I will be presenting to investors individually.The investors are going to be pitched to within a short amount of time.
Should I be ...
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Can a startup with little expenses really benefit from investors?
My Royalty Free Music business model is designed to have zero expenses other than keeping my domain name up every year. The 'fuel' to my company is musicians' old recordings which I create new music ...
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Burned out. Should we sell our SaaS business or find second round investment?
Hey my name is Chris and my wife and I started a web application in Brazil over 3 years ago.
As most of the individuals in this community understand the difficulties of starting a business(These ...
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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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Should a start-up always take funding when there is an opportunity?
I always hear Jason Calacanis say that if there is a chance to take an extra round of funding, the founders should do this. Is that really true?
Does it increase valuation somehow? For example, if ...
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Starting a company with a very similar competitor already in place
I have a tech startup I'm looking to do in the mobile applications space. I thought my idea was very unique and my business partner and I spent about a week coming up with planning, name, concept, ...
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Who uses “Self-Directed” Retirement Accounts to fund start-ups?
In the United States a retirement account like a 401K or an IRA can be incorporated as a "self-directed" account. A self-direct account provides you check-book control over your retirement account. It ...
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What is the most important way in which an investor can add value to your startup?
How would you force-rank (1 being highest to 8 being lowest), in terms of value to your startup, the following 8 services provided by an investor:
Warm introductions to potential customers
Warm ...
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How to get introductions to investors?
All over the internet, the consensus seems to be that when you are looking for funding it is important to approach angels or VCs through an introduction from someone they know, rather than cold.
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Legal aspects of taking investments from a foreign company
There's quite a lot of documentation (for example here) about pros and cons of taking an investment from an accredited or non-accredited investor. However, I don't see any explanation when it comes to ...
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My co-founder wants to leave to take a paid gig — what do I do?
My fiance and I started a business together 2 years ago. He quit his job and I kept my full-time job. We raised $300K from friends and family via promissory notes convertible to shares when a larger ...
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In seed funding, can the investment come from multiple sources?
I have two investors that appear interested in my concept. I am going to speak to one tomorrow. I intend to disclose to him that I will also be speaking with another investor very soon. If possible ...
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2answers
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How do you obtain angel investors help?
I am brand new to the startup stage and am trying to obtain money to get my startup off the ground. I have heard about angel investors but I have no idea how to get in contact with them (especially ...
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Where would one advertise for a lead man/woman?
We are seeking to bring in someone at a founder level that is connected in the Silicon valley investment circles. Is there anywhere in particular we could advert to see if anyone fits our group? Any ...
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Funding and money for startup
I have a very simple and basic question: How do I get funding for my startup? How much money can you get?
Thanks,
Yama
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5 killer questions investors at funding round always want to know?
We are going to a first stage funding round next week at our investor event. I just wanted to know what the collective thoughts were based on experience of the top 5 questions people have asked ?
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What is the best way to present our business plan to potential investors or to a bank?
We have an excellent Business Plan, for some fantastic mobile ideas. The down side, we need funding to get these ideas developed and to market. What is the best way to meet with potential investors? ...
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Do I have to be physically present in SF to attract investors?
I have been reading articles by Paul Graham on start ups and am currently in the process of deciding where to incorporate. What baffles me is that most tech startups move to SF early on when the ...
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“What does your website do?” My answer is
Suppose you are an angel investor and I want you to invest my website, you may ask, "Tell me, what does your website do?" I answer, "My website is a platform. You can seek for people to do something ...
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I am the founder of a website. If I go to meet an angel investor,what questions will he probably ask me?
I have developed a website. It is under internal testing. My website is a platform. You can ask for people to do something for you and you pay them; on the other hand, you can do something for others ...
