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What is the best way to find/acquire angel investors?

Seeking an angel investor for a small startup. We are a web-based company. We have developed an application and need some extra funding to push it to its ideal manifestation. As …
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What are some considerations you should make when borrowing money from friends and family?

The question speaks for itself. There are similar questions, but I didn't find one that provides a checklist of things you should consider before and after borrowing money to fund …
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Do you need to incorporate before you accept funding?

I'm pretty new at the startup game, so please bear with me. I am in the process of starting up a company. I have not incorporated or formed an LLC yet, but I do have someone who …
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How do you start a business without a bank loan or venture capital?

Are there any alternative ways to do that without having to pay a bunch of money for it after you get the money? What do you do if you don't want to borrow money from your family …
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Starting-Up - Help Me!

I'm looking into starting up a software/SaaS-shop, I've some possibly good ideas and I've the motivation but I'm lacking the seed funding to legally register a company. To better …
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Which are the worst mistakes VCs do?

I have seen lot of people ask about VCs, how to reach them for startup funding, what are the mistakes startups make so they can't get funded and so on. But my question and interest …
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Does anyone have experience with Fundinguniverse.com?

I'd really like to know about it . They present you to angels, VCs, and/or banks for funding. They take a $300 fee up front and 3% of the amount of financing. What your experie …
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Angel Investment vs. Loan

What are the benefits and downfalls of accepting angel investment versus taking out a loan to start a company? Which one is better (assuming that you can get both)? What happens if …
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How can I transform my free service to a profit-creating one

I have created a free service that bloggers can use and let readers submit links and comments. I give it away freely and pay myself for the expenses (server, development time etc). …
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Is anyone looking for a partner for your tech startup?

This is in reply to : http://startups.com/questions/631/finding-people-who-work-for-equity But this is for everyone... Chris, most of the web developers are not visionary busi …
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How to get sponsers for an event

I have an entertainment company where I am active with my target audience.I want to be creative and give an event/showcase but do not have the funding for it.I like to know how do …
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What do VCs think about?

I´d like to put myself in the place of a VC and learn how they would think about my startup. Which would you say they would analyze and evaluate before deciding to approve it for f …
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How to receive payments from credit card, if i’m not from US?

I will be very happy to use paypal, but to get approved, i need to have a US bank account. I live in Russia, but want to sell my software via credit cards to the US people. Who kn …
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Reaching VCs or Angel Investors

How can I reach VCs or Angel Investors?
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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 …

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