Investors Questions

My Royalty Free Music business model is designed to have zero expenses other than keeping my domain name up every year. The 'fuel' to my company is musicians' old recordings which I create new...

Funding Investors Music

asked Jun 7 '11 at 11:40

Gregarious
88 points

If somebody has a website idea and make the website successfully (not on paper) and the local market is good (idea succeed) but he cannot extend the market because of management, finance and...

Marketing Finance Website Investors

asked Jun 12 '11 at 13:21

Xaqron
311 points

I started a surveillance technology company in May 2010. Since the beginning, we have been working with a person that has been in the security industry for quite a while. He was providing some...

Sales Technology Equity Angel Investors

asked May 27 '11 at 04:47

Michael
234 points

I created a functional SW prototype intended for Xbox or PlayStation. It is based on very simple idea, which once presented can be simply stolen. How can I protect my idea (prototype)? Will be...

Software Investors Prototype

asked May 20 '11 at 11:14

Stanyko
6 points

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I am looking for some advice on how to setup equity for members of my company, which is a location-based social network for iOS devices. As it stands...

Equity Investment Investors Memberships

asked May 22 '11 at 02:40

Canty Jeffrey
10 points

I'm making what I guess you'd call a website startup, at it's current state, I can do all the developing myself and I have a design coming along from my partner. Overheads will never exceed the...

Website Investment Investors

asked May 25 '11 at 22:10

Dunhamzzz
161 points

I've built a new developer website and have found some companies willing to discuss some sort of partnership. These are companies that sell products that would normally be advertised on sites like...

Website Investors

asked May 12 '11 at 01:02

Jonathan Wood
120 points

Can an investment agreement take place online without entrepreneurs meeting with the investors? If yes, then what is the best procedure. Most of the time Investors want to invest in a startup but...

Investment Investors Entrepreneur

asked May 12 '11 at 03:56

Gin
8 points

I have a few Angel investors, and a meeting next week with serveral VCs (brought to the table by the primary Angel), and I am trying to put together the equity sale package to present to everyone...

Equity Angel Investors

asked May 12 '11 at 23:48

Entrepreneur
11 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 am working hard with lots of start-up clients on their business models. One of the critical issues that we keep coming back to is "who is the customer." In my model the customer is the person...

Marketing Business Model Investors

asked May 4 '11 at 04:12

Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

So I was thinking of finding a connection to an angel group, but as it turns out one of the funded companies in there portfolio is a similar (but not direct) competitor. The platform / idea is...

Angel Investors

asked May 6 '11 at 03:43

Nick
1,171 points

When an investor invests an amount in a startup company exchange for equity, how do they protect themselves from being significantly diluted by a larger investor? And is that even an issue?

Beginning Investors Shares

asked May 10 '11 at 07:30

Pate
306 points

This is a question about methodology for newcomers in the business of lauching firms. I propose that we list all the things that must be done in order to present a good proposal for potential...

Business Model Business Plan Investors Methodology

asked Apr 26 '11 at 00:26

Sylvain Peyronnet
371 points

I have started a small software firm. Of course we need some funding. That's where I heard about angel investors. I would like know about angel investors and how start-ups normally work with them....

Angel Investment Investors

asked Apr 27 '11 at 02:38

Fayaz
36 points

I'm curious what are the main things required to make a good 2 page teaser, to be presented to a potential buyer of a company, a European company. Some tips as well as links to examples would be...

Venture Capital Investors Selling

asked Apr 27 '11 at 10:18

Shk
4 points

I am ready to get in touch with investors, what do you guys do. 1) Do you send them an email with your executive summary? 2) Send them an email asking if they would like to receive one...

Investors

asked Apr 27 '11 at 17:36

Pmillio
57 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

Currently I'm working on a project together with 1 co-founder and soon we are going to incorporate a company. We agreed that I get 70% shares and he gets 30% . The reason is because I started the...

Incorporation Investment Investors Partnerships Shares

asked Apr 20 '11 at 22:08

Paul12
18 points

There are some VC funds who only invest in late-stage companies and some who focus on early stage I am trying to find (or build) a list of those who are interested in taking part in early-stage...

Venture Capital Investment Investors

asked Apr 22 '11 at 01:53

Bryan Migliorisi
449 points