Funding Questions

I'm well aware of the vast sums of VC money in the Bay Area, Seattle, and even Boston. I'm located in the Tampa, FL area and am starting my business here. I'm willing to move the business after a...

Funding Technology Angel

asked May 25 '11 at 05:44

Aj.
212 points

I have been approached by a friend to help with the business side of a venture that he has developed/bootstrapped. No external funding until now. He has developed a working product with outsourced...

Bootstrapped Funding Equity Terms And Conditions

asked May 25 '11 at 16:30

Paddy
31 points

Hey my name is Chris and my wife and I started a web application in Brazil over 3 years ago. As most of the individuals in this community understand the difficulties of starting a business(These...

Funding Saas Investors

asked May 4 '11 at 03:55

Chris
3 points

I always hear Jason Calacanis say that if there is a chance to take an extra round of funding, the founders should do this. Is that really true? Does it increase valuation somehow? For example, if...

Funding Investors Valuation

asked Apr 18 '11 at 16:04

Genadinik
1,821 points

What is a good resource for grants available to business in Canada? Startups are preferable due to the nature of this site, but any would do. Outside of waiting until their announced in the paper,...

Funding Canada Grants

asked Apr 19 '11 at 06:10

Canadiancreed
136 points

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...

Funding India Venture Capital

asked Apr 21 '11 at 23:33

Rpk
208 points

I am not (yet) active on a startup of my own but I have been trying to read and educate myself in that arena so that I can at least coherently talk and ask the right questions of the people who...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Apr 22 '11 at 06:04

Whaley
113 points

What is the difference between Series A, Series B and Series C investment for a startup? How does this affect salary and/or equity expectations if I am looking to join a startup in a...

Funding Equity Investment Compensation

asked Apr 23 '11 at 00:23

Nissan Dookeran
177 points

What is share dilution? How can I, as a past employee of a company where I exercised my share options, know if my shares are subject to dilution? How can I protect myself in future from share...

Funding Equity Investors Shares

asked Apr 23 '11 at 01:24

Nissan Dookeran
177 points

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....

Networking Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding

asked Apr 23 '11 at 05:52

Nick
1,171 points

I'm sure this has been asked before, but my searchfu failed me, so I'll ask... How do people bootstrap (which I assume is the most common early-funding model) and manage to pay the rent and feed...

Bootstrapped Funding

asked Apr 24 '11 at 14:33

Fixee
155 points

My team and I are very capable (we launched our site in short time its getting updated frequently) but this is our first real startup and we do not have any sort of famous reputation (like...

Funding Entrepreneurs Reputation

asked Apr 1 '11 at 03:51

Adam Gent
186 points

I am working on a SAAS product. One day i would like to grow it in to a business. I am in Ohio. I heard from people that its easier to get funding in California, bay area, sf area. I am planing to...

Funding

asked Apr 2 '11 at 07:02

Keverw
116 points

Recently my government announced they are lending funds for entrepreneurs. Not sure about the interest (which I will find out later), but their terms is first 3 years no repayment needed, then on...

Funding Government

asked Apr 4 '11 at 02:55

Victor
593 points

I'm currently raising capital for our startup and I have my first meeting with an angel investor next week. We are have achieved product/market fit, are ready to launch and are looking for $1.5...

Funding Angel

asked Apr 4 '11 at 21:13

Susan Jones
4,128 points

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...

Funding Finance Venture Capital

asked Apr 6 '11 at 14:37

Aslyesnow
214 points

Ok, so everyone thinks they have the next big great idea. Let's just assume for the sake of this question that I really DO have a good/great idea. Some background and basic. I'm obviously not...

Getting Started Funding Ideas

asked Mar 24 '11 at 03:47

Phil Sandler
138 points

I've set up two LLC's and an S-corp myself before for companies that I own and run; but this new idea I have is bigger and I will be pursuing investor involvement for it. I'm trying to keep my...

Funding Corporate Structure Corporate

asked Mar 25 '11 at 06:35

Nick
1,171 points

"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...

Funding Venture Capital Business Model

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:46

Edit This
88 points

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,...

Funding Investing Venture Capital Capital

asked Mar 31 '11 at 03:32

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points