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3answers
27 views
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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1answer
27 views
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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2answers
36 views
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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3answers
36 views
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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1answer
41 views
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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1answer
10 views
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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14answers
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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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4answers
343 views
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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1answer
27 views
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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3answers
150 views
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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1answer
18 views
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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4answers
50 views
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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1answer
24 views
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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8answers
116 views
Reaching VCs or Angel Investors
How can I reach VCs or Angel Investors?
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1answer
22 views
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 …
