Funding Questions

I've developed a new product that I am going to be selling and putting on the market. I had been planning on funding everything with my own personal savings. I have a friend (Mike) who believes in...

Getting Started Funding Equity Investors Partnerships

asked Feb 26 '13 at 16:01

John
1 point

I am on optometrist and want to start my own business and stop working for others. In my world, the owner of the optical pays the doctor (me) a salary and makes a killing on my labor in the form of...

Getting Started Funding Startup Costs

asked Mar 1 '13 at 06:28

Kacalapy
129 points

Me and my 3 partners are in the early stages of a gaming start up company. We are now looking to split the initial equity in the company because we are not all on equal terms. Person#1 is an...

Funding Equity Gaming Investment Early Adopters

asked Feb 13 '13 at 13:30

David Menard
101 points

How to fire a co-founder, which means mainly how to remove him from the funding process. We decided to get ride of one of our co-founder, we didn't fund yet, and we wanted to give him 20% share,...

Funding

asked Feb 2 '13 at 05:32

John
3 points

My business partner and I are looking to start a gymnastics school. We have been told by the bank that we need 100% collateral. It is not uncommon for owners to seek parents of current gymnasts to...

Funding Legal

asked Feb 6 '13 at 01:46

Kendra
11 points

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?

Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding Fundraising

asked Jan 19 '13 at 14:02

4th Space
125 points

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...

Funding Venture Capital USA Europe

asked Jan 20 '13 at 18:49

Mike
113 points

I've been working on my startup for about 3 months now. Currently we have two active team members: a backend developer and a frontend developer (myself). Now we're looking to get investments so...

Funding Investment Investors

asked Jan 27 '13 at 03:41

Michelle
168 points

I am interested in forming an "ownership group". I see the term all over the place, especially in sports, but can't seem to find any details on how these groups are initially formed. Is it a legal...

Funding Legal Documents Group Buying

asked Dec 14 '12 at 08:24

Mark
126 points

My cofounders and I have bootstrapped so far to get a hardcoded (doesn't connect with a server) iOS prototype for $10k from a local outsourced developer. We have no traction yet and are in need of...

Funding Development Outsourcing

asked Dec 16 '12 at 14:26

V B
24 points

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...

Funding Venture Venture Capital Seed Funding Capital

asked Dec 28 '12 at 09:05

Sam
123 points

How will I know when my company is ready to receive an investment? I am starting a company and have bootstrapped it so far. I have produced four versions of the demo. The first fully-working...

Funding Investors

asked Nov 28 '12 at 11:10

Gunshor
1 point

I'm going to be vague and have used a new anonymous account to hide my identity because I don't want the other parties involved to know about my question. I'm a developer who has been working on...

Funding Software Non Profit

asked Oct 23 '12 at 05:23

Justgottaknow
9 points

We are in need of a designer for our start up, but we are pretty much cash poor. I have been talking to a designer for a few days, and he really wants to help as he loves our idea. He is very...

Getting Started Funding Equity Business

asked Oct 24 '12 at 13:00

Derek
164 points

I'm meeting with a local incubator tomorrow and I would like to know if it's okay to tell them I'm going to "shop around". I want to talk to other incubators and see what they can bring to the...

Getting Started Funding Incubators Investors

asked Oct 30 '12 at 23:10

Dragonman
120 points

I've seen a few posts on this site about crowdsourcing which imply that it's not possible to use kickstarter outside the US. I'm wondering where does this information come from ? Any sources ? I...

Funding Crowdfunding

asked Oct 16 '12 at 16:30

Dinaiz
116 points

I am going to embark very soon on a software venture (have been a consultant and employee up until now). I see advantages in signing up for Microsoft's BizSpark. However, I wonder if doing so...

Funding Bizspark

asked Oct 17 '12 at 11:40

B. Clay Shannon
123 points

No matter what shape the economy is in, the government will always have at least a few if not many contracts with defense contractors. I would like to start a business as a supplier to these...

Getting Started Funding Business Government

asked Sep 22 '12 at 04:17

Greg Mc Nulty
75 points

I am with a one year old startup. We had an offer to get public a couple of days after we started the company and nowadays more and more people ask me that. Reverse mergers and Capital Pool...

Funding

asked Sep 29 '12 at 08:52

Ovi Ang
6 points

I'm interested in developing a product for the sport of paintball. It has an estimated 10+ million participants (3rd largest extreme sport), though I'd be targeting the real enthusiasts of the...

Funding Niche

asked Aug 24 '12 at 23:43

Tbowman
217 points