Funding Questions

Our startup is at a very early stage, and we do not want any institutional funding at this moment, for reasons out of the scope of this question. We are instead looking for funding from friends and...

Funding Commission

asked Apr 5 '12 at 03:36

Royal1122
252 points

I was looking at kickstarter to get some funding for a possible business venture. Kickstarter funding would cover entity filing fees and other costs or licenses and materials. I have seen some...

Funding Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Mar 15 '12 at 12:35

Cqm
11 points

My name is Stephen. This is my first time at your site so I'll explain where I'm at with my product and hopefully I can get a little feedback on what you might think is the best "next step". 1.)...

Funding Registration

asked Mar 17 '12 at 23:07

Stephen
16 points

Are there any statistics that measure the success vs. failure rates of startups? The definition of success would be to attract first or second round of funding and failure would be to not get...

Funding

asked Mar 8 '12 at 17:38

Eminemence
108 points

I and a friend of mine are working on our own web startup. Right now we are coding the whole thing and would be looking for investors 3-4 months down the line. My question is, can we include our...

Funding Founders Personal Expenses

asked Mar 10 '12 at 09:32

Sandip Dev
33 points

I have applied for the registration of my company, but it might take around 3 months to get all the formalities clear. In the meantime, is it possible to approach any VC and ask for funding? I ask...

Funding

asked Feb 16 '12 at 16:27

Nitin Bansal
1 point

I was thinking it all right to work on my great concept during my free hours and weekend left from my day job. however, lately, I feel I cannot use this free time effectively due to job stress and...

Funding Day Job

asked Feb 16 '12 at 20:46

Ned
1 point

We are building a startup, we are a few weeks away from our MVP launch. We have had some initial positive investor conversations with an angel and a couple VCs. One large VC that generally doesn't...

Funding Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 16 '12 at 22:15

Dmoore
11 points

Let's consider jQuery is an example project for my question. jQuery is the most renown java script open source software framework nowadays. It was created when working with JavaScript was a real...

Funding Software Monetization Open Source

asked Feb 2 '12 at 21:44

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

Our business model is based on IAAS. We have to keep investing in equipment that we rent out and always lack funding to purchase new equipment. We have come this far with private loans and fundings...

Funding

asked Feb 5 '12 at 18:08

Brian
11 points

What the appropriate documents needed for one to buy into a (Delaware) C Corp (private)? What are the documents that the Company needs to issue in order to confirm the investment?

Funding Equity Legal Shares

asked Feb 7 '12 at 03:21

Sfe
4 points

Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea. They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier...

Funding Co-Founder Equity Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 8 '12 at 12:24

Jjj
21 points

Background I've been working on a video game for android devices (i.e. an app) for some months now, and I'm getting close to completing a solid, well polished product I'm lucky enough to have an...

Funding Finance Apps Loan

asked Jan 25 '12 at 11:32

James Coote
130 points

What are the best incorporation (and related) document resources? Are the YCombinator incorporation docs available? There are a number of 'model' or 'open source' documents for a startup's first...

Funding Incorporation Legal Documents Ycombinator

asked Jan 25 '12 at 15:50

Chris Busselle
36 points

I'm trying to raise a startup with three other people. The idea is to have a first prototype of the product and then seek funding. So far we have collaborated informally, but now we will go into...

Funding

asked Jan 31 '12 at 08:15

Lightman
8 points

One of the great benefits of the web application business is that startup costs are generally fairly low compared to brick and mortar businesses. Web hosting is getting cheaper and programming...

Funding Venture Capital Website Web App

asked Feb 2 '12 at 04:59

Jason C
41 points

I'm a foreign entrepreneur, If a US investor shows interest in investing in my company. At what stage do i have to meet them? do you think it's worth it to spend $2000 in travel expenses and yet...

Funding Venture Capital

asked Jan 22 '12 at 02:19

Ryan
139 points

We have just lauched a website for our upcoming SPARQL Database Server. We would like to attract the interest of international seed investors, but we are not sure where to start looking. We are...

Funding Investment Investors Seed Funding Seed

asked Jan 23 '12 at 22:31

Inge Henriksen
101 points

I have a brand new tech startup. The system was developed over the period of 1 year, the website is ready and it also already has a couple of customers (non-recurring). The service was launched 2...

Funding Shares

asked Jan 5 '12 at 17:58

Invictus
6 points

My question is, what is the best way to evaluate a software startup as a perspective employee from the point of view of viability i.e. economic viability. I am more interested in hints related to...

Getting Started Funding Employees Profitability

asked Jan 6 '12 at 07:13

Jim
21 points