Financing
New Opinion, Not the 2010 Post: Should Angels Charge Founders to Pitch?
New angel pitch-fee opinion, not the retired 2010 post. A subjective incentives rubric; ACA and SEC citations are dated archives whose live official pages…
Taxes for SaaS Founders: What to Know (US, EU, International)
A practical SaaS tax guide to US entity choices, sales-tax nexus, EU VAT, withholding and merchant-of-record limits, with questions to resolve for your business…
Navigating the VC landscape: The good, bad, and WTF?
While attending a session at Lowenstein LLP for the inauguration of the 2013 First Growth Venture Network, I had the pleasure to speak with and listen…
Know your potential investor. A capital acquisition strategy story.
Be it the three F’s (Friends Family & Fools), Grants, Loans, Business Angel Investment and / or Venture Capital the vast majority of startups…
Angel Investing 101
More than often young entrepreneurs believe that once they have an idea, it in itself is sufficient enough to acquire that Business Angel (BA)…
What makes a good Business Angel investment?
Something to the effect of 80{abb65e2b6815f549a727af2ea9f3a377a727ddc064972a198a74f88a6b766686} of Angel invested businesses go under, and when looking at angel investor activity from those individuals who have…
Understanding the Startup Financing Process
The 3F‘s, Seed Capital, Angel Capital, Venture Capital, Series A, IPO‘s sounds familiar or does it? Many budding entreprenerus, and especially those without a…
Who should pay the fees, Startups or the Investor?
BY F3FUNDIT Who pays the fees, should it be the startup? Most Investors will tell you yes. Or should it be the Investor, which…
Getting Funded: Alternative Financing Methods
BY F3FINDIT Let’s face it, getting money to finance your business is no easy task, and especially so when you’re talking about recessions where…
Is my time worth it? Pre-Money Valuation and the Burger King Opportunity Cost
BY JACEK GREBSKI You have to be thinking to yourself, what on earth does Burger King have to do with startups. Well, a few…