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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. some venture backed companies have raised over 10 rounds of financing) are further rounds of venture capital funding.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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[U.S.] Small Businesses Look To Hire In The Next Six Months: Pepperdine

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to seeking financing, small businesses say they are most willing to use bank loans as a financing option (70.7%), followed by angel financing (35.7%), private equity (28.1%) and venture capital (27.2%). were successful.

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Crowdfunding Sites Offer 5 Hidden Benefits

Growthink Blog

The investment pitch was pretty simple -- give us money and we'll give you equity and beer. That's because equity investments in the U.S. Rather than giving up equity , in this type of Crowdfunding, entrepreneurs give rewards. are controlled by the U.S. This option is a type of Crowdfunding I call rewards-based Crowdfunding.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Anonymizer raised a small amount of equity and was able to build a business that became very profitable. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. However, each financing resets the clock as new investors are looking for a multiple of their investment on exit.