funding fridays

Funding Fridays: Debt Financing

Image Credit: Nusrin 2

Image Credit: Nusrin 2

Debt is the flavor of capital most of us are deceptively familiar with.  It is easy to draw the wrong conclusions from our experiences with credit cards and mortgages.  But when used correctly, debt is an invaluable tool for almost all startups.  Below are links to a lecture (broken up into 5-minute segments) where you can learn about the pros, cons, and best practices in securing this kind of funding for your startup.

  • Part I: Description, incentives
  • Part II: Process, pros, cons
  • Part III: Best practices

    • This post is a part of Funding Fridays, an occasional series on best practices in raising funding, as well as our collection on the Flavors Of Capital.

    Funding Fridays: Large Grants

    For anyone doing a capital-intensive startup (many CleanTech and Life Science ventures fall into this category), then you'll want to learn about large grants.  Below are links to a lecture (broken up into 5-minute segments) where you can learn about the pros, cons, and best practices in securing this kind of funding for your startup.

  • Part I: Description, incentives
  • Part II: Process, pros, cons
  • Part III: Best practices

    • This post is a part of Funding Fridays, an occasional series on best practices in raising funding as well as our collection on the Flavors Of Capital.

    Sample Public & Private Large Grant Funders

    Funding Fridays: Small Grants & Competitions

    Small grants and competitions are a great source of capital for startups.  Below are links to a lecture (broken up into 5-minute segments) where you can learn about the pros, cons, and best practices in securing this kind of funding for your startup.

    This post is a part of Funding Fridays, an occasional series on best practices in raising funding as well as our collection on the Flavors Of Capital.

    Sample competitions and small granters

    Funding Fridays: Friends & Family Financing

    Remember, you'll see them every thanksgiving for the rest of your life so be sure to Do The Right Thing.

    Remember, you'll see them every thanksgiving for the rest of your life so be sure to Do The Right Thing.

    Friends and Family is the most commonly used flavor of capital" to fund startups of all kinds. Below are links to a lecture (broken up into 5-minute segments) where you can learn about the pros, cons, and best practices in securing this kind of funding for your startup.

    This post is a part of Funding Fridays, an occasional series on best practices in raising funding as well as our collection on the Flavors Of Capital.

     

    Funding Fridays: How to Write For Investors

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    Funders are overwhelmed with applications. So overwhelmed they often allocate only 15-30 seconds to the initial review of each applicant… and based on that brief review they disqualify 50-75% of them! Those of you who have followed my personal blog and twitter feed have see my own examples of this – simple mistakes people make that get them tossed out right away. DON’T BE THAT GUY!

    Here is a brief video that shows you some simple rules to dramatically increase your odds of getting through the first level of filtration:

    http://screencast.com/t/FsqbvoTDZGIf

    This post is a part of Funding Fridays, an occasional series on best practices in raising funding.