Venture Capital Questions

I'm a student and an iOS developer. I am trying to pay for advertising for my apps. Is this a situation where I'd want to raise venture capital? I develop my apps solo, sometimes my own ideas,...

Venture Capital

asked Mar 23 '11 at 13:16

Moshe
409 points

I recently launched a website for developers (blackbeltcoder.com ). It's a free site that will employ an advertising business model. I'm very pleased with the rate of growth in the just over three...

Venture Capital Investors Corporate Sponsorship Sponsorship

asked Mar 24 '11 at 11:56

Jonathan Wood
120 points

"How am I going to make money?" This is the question that's been bouncing around in my head for the last few months as I've been developing my site. Allow me to beat around the bush here, in order...

Funding Venture Capital Business Model

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:46

Edit This
88 points

One of our advisors recently suggested we consider using "trigger events" for our second round of capital. Along the lines of "I'll commit $50K now and if you get to 25K registered users by 6/30,...

Funding Investing Venture Capital Capital

asked Mar 31 '11 at 03:32

Warren E. Hart
2,181 points

Have read lots of different terms. I have no idea how they differ from one another. Things like, 20% stock pool for employees, and 1 million stocks, etc. Can someone enlighten me? Thank you.

Venture Capital Shares

asked Mar 16 '11 at 14:22

Victor
593 points

I'm about to join a new startup as their CTO and we need to choose our server software stack. The client side is a mobile application (Android, iPhone, etc.) so the server side exposes an API and...

Venture Capital Microsoft

asked Mar 9 '11 at 19:44

Asaf R
133 points

Let's say when a one-founder company owns 100% share. He sells 20% to a VC for $1m. Does this $1m go to the company for its expansion, or founder's pocket, or just a percentage of this money goes...

Founder Venture Capital Angel Investors

asked Mar 12 '11 at 15:26

Victor
593 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

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

In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more...

Hiring Venture Capital Employees

asked Jan 23 '11 at 18:57

Jason
139 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

I am making a new site, and I need some investors for it. The work is quite done, but I am unable to find people who would like to invest in the site. How and where can I find...

Venture Capital Website Investors

asked Jan 7 '11 at 07:26

Amit
113 points

I'm a Russian guy, living in Siberia. I have a great team and a prototype of a kick-ass project. I'm going to LeWeb 2010 (Paris), which is the biggest European web conference. There are going to be...

Venture Capital Angel Investors Conferences

asked Dec 3 '10 at 06:31

User5770
26 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

I'm noticing a trend where VCs try to stay away from vertical markets. Is it true or is it my skewed experienced? How does one go about finding potential investors for a vertical market business?

Venture Capital Business Vertical

asked Dec 15 '10 at 12:22

Usabilitest
1,698 points

We are seeking to bring in someone at a founder level that is connected in the Silicon valley investment circles. Is there anywhere in particular we could advert to see if anyone fits our group?...

Funding Co-Founder Venture Capital Investors

asked Nov 24 '10 at 12:11

Xs Direct
275 points

Would I have to patent my computer systems (such as desktops and laptops) in order to produce them and sell them to markets? Similar to Dell and HP would operate.

Venture Capital Legal Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 14:43

User5732
6 points

I am working on a start-up company to grow to become a big company to compete against some well known, popular, and in some ways powerful companies in the respective industries and markets today. I...

Venture Capital Patent Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 15:23

User5732
6 points