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Where Do I Find Capital For My Startup?

YoungUpstarts

Once you learn about all of your financing options, you could choose the one best suited to help your business grow. They often provide guidance and coaching, and may even assist with talent recruitment efforts, network on a startup’s behalf, or render other services to help it grow. What if I Want to Build the Company On My Own?

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

The stats behind what Bryan and the team had accomplished while bootstrapping the business were incredible, including signing up over 1,000 paying accounts and analyzing over 30,000 code repositories EVERY DAY. Today Code Climate is announcing that they’ve raised a $2M round of financing , led by us at NextView Ventures.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Dumb Money - Are we as dumb as we look?

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The Biggest Threats to My Business

Rob Go

This can happen either because the founder can bootstrap the company with her own resources to get further, or because the company and team is so compelling that a large fund can lead a series A out of the gates. Sure, there is some brand benefit and network effect as you become known for investing in great companies.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. ProfessorVC.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. Bootstrapping 101. ► January. (1).