Funding Questions

As far as I understand, when the next round happens, the startup emits new shares that are sold to new investors under newly negotiated valuation. Does this lead to the previous investor's shares...

Funding Angel Investors Seed Funding Dilution

asked Jan 7 '12 at 01:28

Fedd
8 points

When raising funds for a start-up with a working prototype/alpha product, should you refrain from asking for a specific amount? Or should you provide a preferred amount, and a backup plan for a...

Funding Investors Seed Funding

asked Dec 21 '11 at 16:38

Nick
108 points

I wonder, how did Quora persuaded their investors as they don't make revenue and even they don't have any revenue model as far as I know. The question is same again for twitter ( I know they sell...

Funding Pitch Business Model Twitter Fundraising

asked Dec 27 '11 at 15:54

To Rr0t
69 points

I have been in software industry since Aug-2005. In beginning of 2009 I got a nasty memory leak related defect to solve from my employer. To help myself with such kind of errors in future, I...

Funding Products Side Projects Demo

asked Dec 2 '11 at 23:29

Iammilind
182 points

We're sitting with a situation where we have been given two different offers for seed investment. The first is more than double the amount of the other, but from someone not in the tech industry,...

Funding Seed Funding

asked Dec 6 '11 at 22:20

Hss
157 points

I would like to get up to speed on Business Analysis, and just downloaded, "A Guide to Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide)" and I'm wondering if this is the best single source for the...

Funding

asked Dec 8 '11 at 12:13

Blunders .
899 points

Me and my partner are about to start a new startup. I'm much more financially prepared than he is so we've agreed on the following structure. I would fund the company with half a million for the...

Getting Started Funding Equity Stock Options

asked Nov 30 '11 at 10:49

Erotsppa
139 points

I've been reading people talking about giving away 51% of the company in exchange for money and considering it normal. I perhaps miss something but what is the point of creating a startup company...

Funding

asked Nov 18 '11 at 06:24

Fobo
116 points

A business has $80,000 worth of liabilities that must be paid within the next 3 months. The liquid (can be turned into cash quickly) assets total only $60,000, the sales and collections from...

Funding

asked Nov 18 '11 at 10:12

User14488
6 points

My business partner and I are forming an LLC. As I understand, members of an LLC are not employees and therefore are not on payroll. Instead they pay themselves by taking a draw from the LLC...

Funding LLC Equity Business Partnerships

asked Nov 20 '11 at 03:41

Sheehan Alam
194 points

I have got an idea which is new in concept and is based on the cellular market. I am a programmer, an animator and I can do graphics and presentations. I am definitely NOT a business man, and for...

Funding Strategy Company

asked Oct 28 '11 at 07:10

Ted
118 points

So I have a start up I am working on and given that I am a technical person I have been out looking for a business co-founder. I approached a former co-worker of mine with business experience and...

Funding Co-Founder

asked Oct 22 '11 at 10:40

David Mokon Bond
234 points

We are applying for angel investment for our startup and we're working on putting together our one page executive summary. What is the typical flow/format of an executive summary?

Funding Angel Business Plan Seed Funding

asked Oct 6 '11 at 07:05

Gagan
150 points

I have designed several products that involve electronics. I do all the design, electronics, and building myself except for a few things. There is a market for these products although competition...

Marketing Funding

asked Oct 8 '11 at 17:03

Abstract Dissonance
106 points

So this is my situation: I've got an idea and I don't have much programming skills - I'm 16 and about to start uni for the first time in a couple of months and I'm in for Software Engineering....

Getting Started Funding Business Process

asked Oct 14 '11 at 17:18

Tushar747
11 points

I'm staring well a start-up :) Currently we are using internal funds, and by estimates it will last for a good while, but if our growth(users servers etc.) exceed our sales, sooner or later we will...

Funding Exit Strategy Seed Funding

asked Oct 1 '11 at 03:53

Ekim
141 points

We have a niche business for a particular industry but with very good domain expertise and traction. We have a few hundred enterprise customers and over 10 paying enterprise customers after just a...

Funding Market Niche

asked Oct 2 '11 at 00:11

Kleine2
16 points

We are a start up company set up 14 months ago. We were building few products which we could not finish yet. we plan to finish it in another 6 months. Since our initial budget were very low. We had...

Funding Investing Entrepreneurs Investment Strategic Investment

asked Oct 2 '11 at 10:57

Fayaz
35 points

This past March I co-founded a (for-profit) NV corporation, which created a Facebook App in the C2C social gifting space. This software, however, can be used in multiple industries, and I wanted to...

Funding Non Profit Facebook Apps Micro Startup

asked Oct 5 '11 at 07:21

Robert J Valli
6 points

TL;DR: Worked a year+ on code we still own, founder refuses to raise capital (wants to bootstrap) and is now low-balling us, we're willing to walk away--what would you do? Long version (detailed...

Funding Founder Development Valuation Code

asked Oct 5 '11 at 19:35

How To Use Our Leverage
11 points