Questions regarding people or companies providing businesses with cash infusion(s) needed to finance its operation.
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Investor perspective on non-dilutive equity? [duplicate]
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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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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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Is it unattractive to investors if I have a 51% Anti-Dilution Provision?
Will investors be turned off if i own 51% of the company and have an Anti-Dilution clause that keeps me at 51%?
I expect I will go through several rounds of 3rd party investing in my start-up.
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Consequences with investors if company doesn't meet agreed milestones
I have a few questions about promised milestones to investors.
Is it common to include very specific milestones in the term sheet?
What are the consequences if you fail to meet them? Losing Board ...
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Should I get investors to sign an NDA before sharing my idea?
I have an idea for a company and I want to share it with potential investors. I'm a bit concerned about my ability to protect the idea. Should I get them to sign an NDA? Would that scare investors ...
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Start up is getting offer to have website developed for “profit sharing”
I have an idea for a website that myself and a partner have started to get going. One of our first steps was speaking with a web developer. The site may run over our budget. The developer (who is a ...
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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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How to structure even number of board of directors?
We are in the process of setting up a board structure for our startup. Everybody on the board will have their own veto rights on important matters, such as capital injection, spending limits, getting ...
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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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Working @ Startup. Need help reading their most recent SEC Filing
Our Company just raised another round of funding (5MM). I took a peak at the SEC filing and it was confusing. See below:
Total Offering Amount $18,500,000 USD Total Amount Sold $9,777,138 USD ...
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Am I worrying too much about my IP?
I've spent the better part of the last several years developing a product/algorithm, and although I lack the time/funds to do an exhaustive patent search, I'm 99.99% certain that the algorithm is ...
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What to do when an investor ask for a percentage of future revenues
We have a profitable hardware and SaaS business. some clients want to obtain a 12-month financing to buy our hardware. we need extra money to allow it. that would increase our monthly income by SaaS ...
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Investor sniffing around - time to launch?
I have a prototype product. I have shown it to a few people and have a couple very interested investors (friends) who want to help me launch a viable product to build a pitch deck and business plan ...
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Investor wants 51% shares of our company
We are five engineering students, going to start up a company.
As there are many competitor companies in the market, we were looking for an investor to start very big.
Fortunately, we found an ...
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Approaching Angels by E-Mail - How much information should I expose?
I consider contacting a few potential angel investors through E-mail, for my yet to be founded startup.
My Executive Summary is ready to be sent, but I'm wondering if its safe to send it right away, ...
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Selling an idea in the public sector
Me and my partner are working on an idea for a text (SMS) service that we intend to pitch to the National Health Service in the UK as it could potentially save them a lot of money. However, minus the ...
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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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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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How much time should be spent on expandability in front of investors?
I have five minutes to present a web app in front of investors (well, actually they are contest judges, but they are still looking for an app that will take off), and then I get five minutes for ...
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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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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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Buy or Rent/Lease
Assuming a venture-backed startup with seed financing that plans to raise further rounds: does it make sense to buy things or should it go for renting/leasing?
"Renting" something (office equipment, ...
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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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How to kick start a web service with no working capital on hand?
I have a project on the table with a business model that involves creating a web service to streamline all the best pieces of internet marketing into one platform. Full details need to be kept ...
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Can I approach Angels even if my associate and I have absolutely no cash?
My associate and I are doing a website and we have absolutely no cash.
Altough, we made a demo, "a prototype" of our website.
Would that demo and a solid pitch/business plan convince an angel even ...
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Do investors in the US invest in international companies?
I am based in the US, but I would like to start an ISP in a different country.
Would it be reasonable to find investors in the US? Or do I have to find investors in the target country?
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What is a reasonable amount to ask to investors?
I asked a question about this before, but things have changed.
I developed software for basketball and football teams. I have sold 32 copies @ $20 each doing virtually nothing. I wrote a few articles ...
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Investor Relations for Startups
Our company appears to be close to getting our first investment -- term sheet but no cash delivered -- and we know we need to get in the habit of keeping this investor and any future ones up to date ...
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Is it worth applying to ABC's Shark Tank tv show?
I am trying to raise funds for my patented idea. I looked into applying to ABC's Shark Tank tv show. Does anyone have any experience with the show? I submitted my idea to season 4 casting on Shark ...
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How to calculate a company market value?
When an investor invests in a start up company, the investor will also ask how do you estimate the company's market value. How do you calculate this value? Does it require some professional accountant ...
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Licensed software and due diligence: sufficient?
In the process of due diligence for an investment or for M&A, I ask:
Considering that all other software is property of the company, is it sufficient to have a non-core part of the software, ...
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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 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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Have applied for Provisional Patent, looking for Angel Investor first
I have over 20 years of Software Development and 10+ Years of Project Development Management experience. I have plans to apply for two more Patents, (besides one Provisional Patent already applied). ...
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What should we expect in an accelerator interview?
Checked, but didn't see an answer to this:
My partners and I have applied to a NYC accelerator. They have invited us to do an in person interview to determine if our project is a good fit.
Aside ...
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Can an investment club, made up of non-accredited investors, invest in multiple startups?
We are about to create an investment club. We have plans to buy stock, but we plan to invest over 50% of our shares monthly minimums on startups. Is this allowed since we are an LLC with multiple ...
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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]
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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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How do I make website projections?
I own a website that I've been working on for the last couple years, and I'm now at a point where I need to try and raise money from venture capitalists. I am wondering what the best way to formulate ...
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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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Should I quit the company I founded?
I will try to make this short. About nine months ago my ex boss offered to invest in a company for me. Our relationship even when it was not romantic was deeply emotional. I care a lot about him as a ...
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How long should you keep your idea a secret?
I am a graduating senior in college studying computer science and machine learning. For the past year, I have been working with two other people on what we think is a pretty fantastic idea, offering a ...
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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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Finding Investors. Who can you trust?
I see lots of investor hunters or finders on the web, but who can you trust? For instance many want a fee upfront to introduce you to 10 or 20 qualified leads. This is mostly done via phone and email. ...
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Is AngelList the best place for finding angel investors? [duplicate]
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Any experience with AngelList as startup?
I am about to find seed investors for my company, I read somewhere in tech news mentioned AngelList. Is it good? How easy is it ...
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commission on interest of cash deposits of foreign investors
I live in a country, Australia, where I can get upwards of 5% interest per annum on cash deposits held in a bank account. Having parents-in-law who live in a country, Japan, that offers about 0.02% ...
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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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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, ...
