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How to Research and Determine Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
I'm working on the executive summary for my website idea and need to figure out the total market capitalization for the this industry.
For example, if all the yearly advertising (and other) revenue ...
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Term sheet condition to use the investors law firm?
Our company has just received a term sheet for a convertible debt investment. One of the clauses states that we have to pay the fees for drafting the agreements (which I understand is normal), but ...
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Thoughts on offering Software development in return for Equity for a tech startup
I have been developing some software for an online venture in return for significant equity. I am working with another founder who is developing the business. The current thinking is to value our ...
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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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Angel or VC wants to invest, what are main arguments to negotiate shares vs investment?
what are main arguments to negotiate shares vs investment?
I want to be prepared when the time comes and I don't want to figure out in the moment about the negotiation about shares split and how much ...
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With the rampant invest-in-clone-markets system prominent in India, how does one pitch in for some fresh concept?
Angels and VCs in India seem to be living in a "third world" in terms of their risk appetite and appreciation of a new concept or idea. A major part of funding to startups in India goes to ...
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How do you decide between looking for investment or early adopters?
My MVP is ready to go (it's been 3 weeks actually). All this time I've been loosing sleep trying to decide if I should start looking for and organizing early adopters, or organizing a business plan ...
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What are the steps for getting a tech startup off the ground when you're the only team member?
I'm a software developer with over a decade of experience writing code. I've recently had an idea for a tech startup and am in the process of creating a prototype website and a pitch deck for the ...
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It is common for salaries to stay below market rate even after an initial venture round?
I am employee #1 in a startup with some substantial equity in it.
Our startup was funded by angel money and I have worked from the beginning for a salary way below market rate. Now, venture round A ...
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Finding Investors/partners to fulfill the following needs
You've probably heard this before, but I came up with the idea for great product and I developed it. I measured the demand for it personally, by demonstrating it to the target audience and got a ...
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What is really considered overhead in a web-based app business?
The setting is a web-based app that charges a fee per month to use the service.
You have rent, utilities, servers, developers, graphic designers, marketing, legal, accounting, office supplies, ...
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How much equity is normal for a programming VC to take for developing a mobile app?
I'm in the process of developing a mobile app for a niche industry B to C. We have an established brand in 17 countries (hard goods)and significant credibility in our industry. It's not, but as an ...
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Followed by a cloud VC investor on Twitter - should we contact him?
We have a small but rapidly growing cloud based product which is currently free and we are about to move into the monetization stage.
In the last week we have been followed on Twitter by a tech VC ...
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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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Source for “The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail” [closed]
This tidbit has been re-blogged all over the internet:
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return
investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a
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Product in Development what to do next?
My product is in development.
By Feb 5th a beta should be released.
For the mean time aside from getting traffic to prelaunch what else should I do ?
I am the nontech founder.
So Far I have ...
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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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Guide on writing a good business plan for a technology startup
I'm looking for advice on writing a business plan for a VC or Angel investor in the technology field. What are they looking for in a business plan/pitch?
There are some good basic guides on creating ...
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VC Option Shenanigans
My company is being acquired by a public company (both US based). When we were all hired, our employment contracts stated we'd be granted x number of stock options. I'll say 250,000. That was 3 ...
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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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When is it a bad idea to bootstrap?
There are two types of startups - those who try to get big quickly and then figure out a way to become profitable, and those who are profitable from the beginning, but grow much slower. The first type ...
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Intentions of Pre-Product VC Contact
A VC contacted me about a few weeks ago and he has been wanting to speak just about every week to talk about my business idea.
The idea is still pre-product,and very early on.
What are the potential ...
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How to evaluate my startup price? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do i determine a premoney valuation
How to evaluate my startup price especially at early stage to be able to choose between VCs offers
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Where's should a startup store millions of unused capital?
It seems wasteful to have millions of dollars in a checking account, not fully covered by FDIC (I think it only goes up to $250K). Where do startups keep their unused cash? Pros and cons?
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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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Telefonica's incubator: Wayra. Too good to be true or am I missing others?
Wayra is an initiative regarding startups (theoretically not only tech) founded by telefonica in 2011.
Having started with the premises to form incubators only in 8 latin-american countries + Spain ...
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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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Getting Funds for a Startup
Im starting my Startup with $0, a Mac, and A Windows. I need Startup Money but I don't want to get it from Venture Capital. What kinds of Methods are there?
Thanks
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Determining fund raising stage for venture capital
I've been running a site (community platform) for a couple years and now we are growing fast, getting strong user traction and started implementing a customer oriented business model. In order to ...
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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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Which are the most successful university-associated incubators?
I've been asked by a [very excellent] university to help them start an incubator that will work with faculty & students to build in-lab technologies into fundable start-ups.
[Most everything will ...
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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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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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New business. How *exactly* does one raise VC capital, or any other startup capital?
First off I'm very glad to have found this exchange because a lot of questions will be forthcoming from me.
The skinny: I started a new business a couple months ago, an LLC. My skill set is in the ...
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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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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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How is Wattpad.com monetized?
This is a link to the press release that Wattpad has received and additional 17+ million from come venture capital groups. Wattpad press release Those venture capital groups must see some way to make ...
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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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Can a consumer oriented startup be .NET based?
I'm about to join a new startup as their CTO and we need to choose our server software stack. The client side is a mobile application (Android, iPhone, etc.) so the server side exposes an API and ...
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What venture capital firms have a track record of backing law related websites?
My assumption, which I am perfectly willing to have challenged, is that these VC's would understand the industry and grasp pretty quickly the significance and value of what it is I'm trying to do. ...
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Next steps after launching a social network
So my co-founder and I spent 10 months and launched a social network 2 weeks ago. We are doing simple fb ads and craigslist advertising and have reached 200 users. As anyone will say, our idea is ...
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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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Seek advices: Raise Money or not?
I've $100,000 from my personal money for a new company. I was thinking about going to Austin, TX, as I've heard Silicon Valley is more to raise money than to actually develop apps. Viewing all the ...
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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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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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When can I start using CrowdSource Funding?
Now that the JOBS Act has been passed and signed when can I start raising capital through CrowdSource Funding?
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When should I leave day job to pursue startup full-time?
I am trying to determine when I should quit my job to pursue a startup. Here is what I feel are the pros/cons of leaving
Pros
Can focus more / no time constraints
Iterations are much quicker (I do ...
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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 ...
