Funding Questions

I am trying to startup a mortgage company. My venture would be a full service mortgage lender not a brokerage. I have a marketing plan that I feel will drive business to the company in a...

Funding

asked Mar 22 '11 at 04:12

Steve11140
69 points

In the United States a retirement account like a 401K or an IRA can be incorporated as a "self-directed" account. A self-direct account provides you check-book control over your retirement account....

Funding Investment Investors Seed Funding

asked Mar 22 '11 at 13:30

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

I have a tech startup I'm looking to do in the mobile applications space. I thought my idea was very unique and my business partner and I spent about a week coming up with planning, name, concept,...

Funding Competition Investors

asked Mar 23 '11 at 09:14

Nick
1,171 points

We are an early start up (7 months old), and we are in talks with 3 - 4 clients. We are building an E-learning kind of tool and looking for building the content as well. I kind of sensed one...

Marketing Sales Funding

asked Mar 5 '11 at 00:40

Karan
54 points

I already got my first round, piece of cake. We had a million dollars sitting in the bank. But now we've burned through it, and we need to raise again. I'm worried that the pressure from having a...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Mar 9 '11 at 15:54

Balaji Chandrasekaran
18 points

Hi and thanks in advance. I've done some looking around to determine where to start with startup compensation. I work as a contractor exclusively for a startup currently in series b round, I've...

Funding Equity Compensation

asked Feb 23 '11 at 09:53

User7991
11 points

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...

Funding Venture Capital Investors Seed Funding Value Add

asked Feb 24 '11 at 21:58

Zippy
871 points

I am in the process of starting a biotech. I have determined that a year is enough time to gather results promising enough to merit much greater investment- or failing, serious reconsideration or...

Funding

asked Feb 26 '11 at 18:41

Cyclone
128 points

Context: I started a SAAS based platform for small and medium sized companies around a year back. To save some time I intentionally took this underpaid job close to my home. I have successfully...

Bootstrapped Funding Job Offer Jobs

asked Mar 2 '11 at 23:56

User8226
197 points

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....

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investors

asked Feb 10 '11 at 09:40

Susan Jones
4,128 points

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...

Funding Venture Capital Valuation

asked Feb 15 '11 at 05:56

Igorek
886 points

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...

Bootstrapped Funding Venture Capital

asked Jan 4 '11 at 13:31

John
161 points

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...

Funding Equity Venture Capital

asked Jan 7 '11 at 01:36

Joel Spolsky
13,482 points

As far as I know YCombinator usually gives an average of 17k to participants, but do you get more funding rounds through YCombinator or you have to look for VCs yourself after?

Funding

asked Jan 13 '11 at 04:58

Ryudice
204 points

I want to invite different investors/angels to invest a US version of my company which is up and running in Europe. In trying to get the best deal I am thinking of a 'sealed bidding' auction for a...

Funding

asked Dec 28 '10 at 19:59

Brianable
11 points

I am working on a project which just finished its prototype, and will start internal testing soon. There are 3 of members in my team, and we are considering of start trying AI or participating...

Funding Incorporation Incubators

asked Dec 6 '10 at 13:03

D.J
121 points

After successfully building an online business as sole proprietor, I decided register my company as Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) company. Now we are two partners. How will we share the...

Funding Co-Founder

asked Dec 9 '10 at 17:16

User5879
9 points

hi we are forming a startup to implement a concept .. I got in touch with some funders they are asking about the funding model ... can anyone tell what a funding model should contain or what that...

Funding

asked Dec 9 '10 at 17:51

Prasonscala
108 points

I'm in the early steps of putting together a business plan. When it's finished, I'm definitely going to need to secure funding. How do you go about finding potential investors? Tips to consider on...

Funding Angel Seed Funding

asked Dec 11 '10 at 04:35

Matt Huggins
113 points

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...

Funding Hiring Venture Capital Seed Funding Stock Options

asked Dec 13 '10 at 21:30

Jewelthief
151 points