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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

In addition to gathering seed money, hardware startups are also finding success in raising working capital to buy parts via online fundraisers on Tindie (another portfolio company). Related articles. However, there’s a challenge when your investors are also your customers. The making of a hardware revolution.

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Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator

The Startup Magazine

But perhaps the best part of CRI is that it allows participants to focus full-time on innovation by giving innovators enough seed money — including $220,000 to spend on R&D at the laboratory and about $120,000 in salary, benefits and travel — to focus full-time on developing their technology for two years. Is this article helpful?

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Sources of Seed Money

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Even thought money for entrepreneurial ventures is tougher to find than it was in the boom times, there still is money out there. Even seed stage ventures can find backing if they are patient, determined, and have a strong enough business model.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. On top of that, the article comes with a chart--this chart to the left entited "Fewer Bets". Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day. Did I mention it only took the founder a month?

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

This article is based on my experiences and the typical mistakes I see every week in startup land. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This article focuses on the first two options. This article is an excerpt from an upcoming book about Startup CEOs by the author. Good hunting.