Questions regarding people or companies providing businesses with cash infusion(s) needed to finance its operation.
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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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Is there an index of startup incubators around the world?
Is there a list of places like the YCombinator, CapitalFactory etc arranged by their geographic operating regions?
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Partnership questions
I am working on the project which is in its pre beta stage. This is a web based service that allows to distribute some content in a printed format. I got several offers from investors and printing ...
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I don't think I need funding, should I shop around anyway?
I'm making what I guess you'd call a website startup, at it's current state, I can do all the developing myself and I have a design coming along from my partner. Overheads will never exceed the cost ...
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Do investors care about your technology stack?
I stumbled upon this quote on Rob Conery's blog, which referenced an old post by Robert Scoble in which the following was stated, concerning why startups don't use Windows:
They don’t want to take ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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2answers
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How to approach an angel investor?
Once you have identified an angel investor what are some of the questions you should ask him/her and what should you be prepared to talk about with them? Ex: the business in brief, investment ...
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Do investors require a mangement team? What if there isn't one?
From an investor point of view, the cliche is "investor prefers type A management team with a type B product rather than the reverse".
A startup cannot afford CFO, CEO. Founder has to roll up the ...
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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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4answers
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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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Mini-Site to attract Investors?
I have an idea about a web application type of website. I am wondering if I should make a mini site and allow users to sign up and get information about whats coming up. I can use the numbers of sign ...
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2answers
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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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Keeping investors updated
Our company has attracted 14 private investors, each for relatively small stakes. They not only provide seed capital, but also diverse experience and valuable advice.
Can you recommend a ...
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A con-artist or an investor
I have two potential investors: 1) My uncle - a trusted and wealthy family member and 2) "M.S." an unknown person that approached me after having heard my pitch and was "instantly enamored with my ...
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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, ...
