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Fundraising seed capital with just a business plan and no product

We have a great idea for a product in a niche market ripe for a paradigm shift on the way business is done. All we have is a kick-ass business plan with detailed projections, costs, marketing, etc - ...
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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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New business with three partners, one has the credit, one has the time, one has the product

We are looking to start up a business and are in a different situation then I have been in before. I will be looking at financing the money that starts the business. I have one partner that will be ...
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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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What equity should I claim as a founder CEO?

Some people I know came up with a idea of a startup. They will provide also the seed investment (50k) and contacts for future investment rounds. I will be in charge of the start up of the company from ...
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Founder stocks and Employee pool

Is it common to issue equity to CEO as Preferred stock but other co-founders as Common stock? When setting up a 20% employee pool, it is common to have terms that the unissued equity will be issued ...
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Popularity of restricted stock?

Several newbie questions for restricted stocks... Is it common for seed fund to invest in restricted stock? Is it common to issue restricted stock to cofounder? Is it common to turn option to ...
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What would be a reasonable equity when you execute on some one else's basic idea for less than market salary?

I am in some what a unique situation. I work for a friend owned software services company which has only 1 share holder - Founder & CEO. I joined them to execute on a product idea that the Founder ...
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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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What is a reasonable percentage of equity

What is a reasonable percentage of equity that I should expect to give up to an angel investor in exchange for their investment?
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A few questions about Seed Funding!

First of all, this website has been greatly helpful to understand various things about startups. I am glad I found this website. I am starting a company (A web-based startup). I am pretty much new to ...
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Please help with a VC / startup deal / seed money

I and my friend are about to get a deal to fund our B plan. This plan aligns with the expansion plans of the funding company. The deal offered is that of partnership in which we two would be having a ...
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Appointing a CEO - KPIs and what to expect from them year 1 and beyond

We are just moving into the realms of appointing a CEO and are unsure of what we should expect from a CEO We have never done this before and are very green in this particular area. I know we have a ...
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Raising money from friends and colleagues - terms and %

I wish to seed my new business with about $120k, of which I need to raise about $90k. I prefer not to go professional seed investors as: (a) it could take some time (which I don't have); (b) it may ...