FFF and 31 Crowdfunding Platforms To Raise Money for Your Startup
Crowdfunding is rapidly growing in the UK and elsewhere. No longer restricted to Friends Family and Fools, founders can
Category Angel Funding
Fundraising Recommendations for Startups (Part I)
I've been contacted by several members the VC Cafe Network on LinkedIn who are asking for assistance in fundraising for a web startup or a mobile app. I'm writing today to share my recommendations with all who have enquired, and with the broader group of VC Cafe readers.
Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)
This morning, I attended the VC session titled "From Weekend Hack to Funded Startup - How to Build Your Team and Raise Money", with Naval Ravikant (founder of AngelList, ePinions, VentureHacks), Rich Miner (Partner at Google Ventures and co-founder of Android) and Kevin Rose (founder of Digg, Milk, Pownce and Partner at Google Ventures), moderated by Don Dodge. Below are the highlights from the session, including some great questions from the audience.
10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels
This summer, I had the pleasure to be a mentor at the Entrepreneurship Summer School, an elective at London Business School (my alma mater) where students are tasked with testing whether their startup ideas can turn into a fundable business over the course of three months. Check out the tips for raising funding from angels after the jump.
How Can Venture Capital Funds Differentiate Themselves [VC Wish List Part 2]
10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments - based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. So what makes one VC fund be better perceived than others?
Series Seed Documents for Early Stage Startups – V2
Back in March, Andreessen Horowitz and Fenwick & West, LLP published a series of documents that would help structure early stage investments in startups. The documents have since been used in many deals already according to the site, SeriesSeed.
10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]
How to make your startup attractive for investors? Raising money can be time consuming and proper preparation can save you time and money. Here are 10 tips to consider before you pitch to raise funding, originally presented at Launch48 in London.
First Bitesize of 2010
Information overload! That’s the only way to explain the “January Effect” of tech and VC news since the new decade began a week ago. Here’s a few links worth clicking on: Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel is set…
CrowdIT, the company behind DoNanza, secures funding from AfterDox Angels
CrowdIT Ltd., the company which operates the freelance work search engine DoNanza, has secured a “several hundred thousand dollar” investment from the AfterDox Angels Investment Group, writes Shiri Habib-Valdhorn at Globes.