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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Funding : for growth, releasing equity for cash
Just browsing through crunch base, i was looking at flipboards profile http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flipboard , what i was wandering is initaly they got $10.5m series A funding and then $50m in a ...
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When VC's buy into a business who gets the money?
This might be a really dumb question but I've heard of a few cases where VC's have purchased into a business and it made me wonder. Facebook's purchase of Instagram recently made me think to ask on ...
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Once you find a VC/Business Angel or other, how long does it usually take to close the deal and get the money?
Imagine you found a VC or Business Angel or other to invest in your project something around 200,000 USD. How long does it usually take to close the deal and get the money? (A min-max and average ...
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Looking for Angel/ VC funding for our project
We have a smartphone job engine. The project is already released in beta domain and getting good response. We have not yet prepared Business Project/Proposal document as we were concentrating on ...
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Why does a web startup need millions on VC capital?
One of the great benefits of the web application business is that startup costs are generally fairly low compared to brick and mortar businesses. Web hosting is getting cheaper and programming costs ...
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How investment works when the entrepreneur is a foreigner?
I'm a foreign entrepreneur, If a US investor shows interest in investing in my company.
At what stage do i have to meet them?
do you think it's worth it to spend $2000 in travel expenses and yet ...
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Who are the most reputed Angels/VCs and what type of Businesses each of them Concentrate on
I am looking for funding, thus looking for angels in technology and trading. Is is possible to post sources of funding by area and stage. Also relative merits of each source. Perhaps links and ...
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Where can I find complete list of Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investors? [closed]
I am looking for a list of venture capital, private equity and angel investors. Are these lists available online or do I need to subscribe to a service?
Also where can I find complete lists of ...
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Will an angel investor be turned off by the founders not wanting to quit their day jobs just yet?
....my co-founder and I are working on a SaaS product and there is a chance we may seek an angel investment. Do you think us wanting to keep our day jobs for 3-6 more months will be a turn-off to ...
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Real-life scenarios of encounters with VC/Angel funding?
I've started lately to think about what's common sense when it comes to seeking funding from VC's or Angels. So What I would like to do is spend a few hours on reading some stories by actual ...
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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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What happens when I issue shares and nobody buys them?
After launching the prototype and getting some pretty exciting customer feedback over the last six weeks, we want to raise a little investment money.
We're talking with several organizations so far. ...
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What does “warrants for the equity kicker” mean?
I was reading an article in a VC's blog and I found this explanation about venture debt:
"The terms are usually three years, interest only, balloon payment, with warrants for the equity kicker."
Can ...
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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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Evaluating a “Promise” from a startup company for pay raise, benefits, stock options within a specified period of time?
I would appreciate any advice based on a current situation that I am in that I think a lot of people involved in startups (especially developers) find themselves in at some point.
Basically, I'm in a ...
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Approached by investors from overseas
What types of things do I need to consider if I get approached from a venture fund overseas? I had an early-stage venture fund from Germany contact me looking to learn more about our startup and what ...
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Plain english translation of these finance terms
What does these mean in plain English, guessing the best way to describe it is by giving theoretical numbers for best worst case instances, though that's just my thought - I'll leave it up to you to ...
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When do you start searching for VC's?
I was reading this article on traction and it had an interesting comment in it:
If you wait until you're "ready" to fund you're too late. Funding is about developing a relationship over time. ...
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Planning for venture funding in India and the road ahead
I worked for few government organizations on contractual basis for four years. They were my premium customers for custom software applications. After freelancing for these many years and learning from ...
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Why do startups need so much money?
What are startups raising millions of dollars for? I know running a website can get costly, but seriously, millions? I just don't get it. And if you say advertising, I still don't get it, because the ...
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Should we use “trigger event” investment milestones for additional rounds of capital?
One of our advisors recently suggested we consider using "trigger events" for our second round of capital.
Along the lines of "I'll commit $50K now and if you get to 25K registered users by 6/30, I ...
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Would a voluntary fee work?
"How am I going to make money?" This is the question that's been bouncing around in my head for the last few months as I've been developing my site. Allow me to beat around the bush here, in order to ...
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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 much do I have to share with VCs?
After a phone call, I had my first meeting with a VC 2 weeks ago. He sounded very, very positive, wanted to send me a contract w/ a term sheet etc; and since he has been pretty unresponsive and ...
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Old question again: how does one valuate the startup for VC purposes?
I've been running a bootstrapped startup since last year and am running into definite limitations as to what I can do without further funding.
Startup enables elasticity for Microsoft's cloud ...
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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 are the pitfalls of converting early employees' common shares to preferred and then selling them to investors?
This is a question about private, VC-funded, growth stage companies. It seems to be a new trend to allow early employees to sell some of their shares when the company does a new funding round. For ...
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How much VC equity stake for a product that is fully built for a mid-stage start-up company?
So I have a site that will accept subscriptions the first quarter of 2011. I have been developing this product over the past year and it is almost complete. I would like to use the VC money to help ...
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How does option pool size at the time of incorporation impact valuation and funding
Suppose someone needs to incorprate a C-corp, for a high tech high growth business.
How does option pool size at the time of incorporation impact valuation and funding. Or it only matters how ...
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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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Please help with a VC / startup deal
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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VC funding and determination of a revenue model
In a recent group chat hosted by Joel Spolsky regarding the Stackoverflow Series A funding round, Spolsky was asked:
"How do you envision making a profit?"
to which Spolsky replied:
"...the whole ...
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What's the process around transferring the cash upon a VC funding round?
Let's assume a startup and a VC agree to $X of funding in a Series A. What typically is the process (the mechanics) around transfer of funds from the VC to the startup? (A) Do the funds typically ...
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Prototype ready, need funding in Vancouver, Canada. Is Angelsoft's Open Deals ($250 per month) a good idea?
$250 seems pretty darn expensive that they are charging.
Are there any other ways I can reach VCs ?
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Talking about fundraising with employees
I'm in the middle of raising money for my startup. We have had some initial success (and lots of failed attempts!), and are getting close to finalizing our round. We are a very small company right ...
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What are some resources to watch example pitches?
I like to learn by example so I am trying to find sites that are putting recorded pitches up online.
Examples would be:
Shark Tank on Jason Calacanis's This Week in Startups - ...
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Startup Visa: How can we secure funding from abroad? Is it flawed?
There is a proposal lately to push the US government to create a startup visa for brilliant innovators/entrepreneus from outside USA. With this visa, it is said that these innovators will be allowed ...
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Investor documents during fund raising
I have few question related to fund raising
When you are raising money from VCs, what type of documents are expected from you?
How much of your internal and confidential data/stats do you reveal ...
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What happens if the startup that funded by VC failed a couple of years later?
We've heard the good stories of startup that succeed after receiving funds but what happens if a startup that got funded by a VC but turns out being failure a couple of years later?
Do they get sued ...
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Should prospective investors sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to keep your ideas safe?
Do you think it is important to ask Angel investors or VCs to sign a NDA before disclosing the details of your product ?
