Getting your Startup Funded

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  • Tarunkakkar

    sir i have just started my It venture looking for Offshore clients and some funds to expand my horizon here in India.We are very small now .but we have the capability to expand and grow.Team is very innovative and dedicated.

    could be reached at
    tarunkakkar1991@gmail.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Micu-Bogdan/1317781241 Micu Bogdan

    Hi David. I see this post is blank.I really hope you will fill it up:).I am serching for some VC and it is not a straight forward road.If by the end of the process this will still be blank i will send you some ideas i will learn,so other will benefit faster from them.
    As a suggestion: On Matrix website it is written that if you wish to get in contact to them,you should get someone to introduce you.Is this not a limitation to the company’s chance of finding good deals?
    Thanks and look forward to new ideas.

  • Stef We

    HiWe are a team of researchers who have developed a technique that allows the computer processor to store data with unlimited stock. For example our 1 Gbyte hard drive has enabled us to retain data of 200 Gbytes, and there is still room, I even season series (6 Gbytes) on a memory card 32mbytes. It is an invention without precedent in the world. It can be used in all digital devices (computer, ipod, pictures player, DVDs, video games, satellite etc …).Thanks to this all networks around the world as the internet will be revolutionized. For example we can multiply by 30 the flow of our connection. 

  • Billy Carson

    We have locked a niche market worth over 1 Billion in revenues annually! We have a mobile application on iTunes and Android that are rated the #1 amateur sports app in the world by appadvice.com. Our message boards generate over 600,000 hits per month. We already have over 2000 NCAAW and NCAA prospects in our database. We have also produced the 1st ever created NCAA Prospect Apps in the world!!!

    We are ready to take this business to the next level. Please contact me. 
    Billy Carson, billy@shecanplay.org

    @SheCanPlay:twitter  - @ZenforceMedia:twitter  - @CoachCarson:twitter 

  • Ellio tasante

    hi David,i am Elliot from Ghana and i am endowed with great business ideas which i believe could be a very great hit if i get the needed funds for them.there are enormous amount of opportunity here in ghana and please help me

    i could be reached at
    elliotasante@yahoo:disqus .com
    00233-268-771277

  • Nperpa2ity

     Looking for some comparison company valuation metrics especially as it relates to first round VC/Strategic funding and ownership percentages.

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    Elliot, I am sorry to say that I cannot help you in Ghana. Our firm only invests in US, Chinese and Indian companies where we have local offices. I am sorry, but wish you the best of luck in finding a funding source.

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    I don’t personally know of anything that is publicly available. It’s a complex topic as there are many factors that go into valuing a private company, and a simple table will not provide insights into the full set of variables that go into each individual valuation.

  • Jeff (Sang Yin)

    Hello David.
    I am a Chinese student who studies at Bentley University right now. I created a business plan last year and brought it into Global-Final of MIT-CHIEF Business Contest; as the only undergraduate team, we did a great job in that competition. After hearing advice and suggestion from professional investors, we improved the plan and started it for real this year.
    This business is based on Chinese Market, and all my partners are deciding going back to start it this summer (probably take a couple of years off from college). It is a web-based business so the start-up cost is fairly small, but we still need it to be funded. Do you have any interest in this kind of start-up?
    If you feel somehow interested, could you give me your email address or email me at yin_sang@bentley.edu; I would send you the specific business plan by the end of the week (I am going to NY city to ask some bankers for some advice, so the edited version Business Plan would be ready then).
    Thank you very much!

    Best Regards,
    Jeff

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    I will email you directly.

  • Cyrus Sajna

    Written By : Cyrus Sajna 
    https://www.secondmarket.com/user/cyrus_sajna?t=hli 
    Ive learned a great deal about private equity… One thing is for sure. Offer registration rights to the underlying common securities and be sure to have a basic redemption preference. Also venture capitalist need liquidity like fish need water so have a clear exit strategy. it helps to anticipate what the VC’s want. Put yourself in there shoes. They must make money.. They need registration rights with a clear plan for going public. Aim for Nasdaq Capital Markets and you may see your dreams come true… 

  • Luke Beninga

    Hey David I am a current high school senior who has formed a team of college programmers and are in midterm production of a new mobile social game. We are forming a company as we plan to launch many games down the road. Obviously to fund this we would need start up cash after our first game launch. We are contemplating different roads to go down such as whether to go strait to a VC such as yourself with a prototype and market plan or to launch and show traction and then meet with VC’s?
    Thanks again,
    Luke

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    Hi Luke, I’d recommend launching and approaching VCs after you have traction. Unlike the B2B area where you can do diligence in advance of a launch, with consumer games it’s not at all clear which games are going to capture the users imagination and take off. So you have a much higher chance of getting funding if you can show traction.
    Best, David

  • http://www.phapsy.com/ Luke Beninga

    Alright thanks we are going to college campuses in Northern California to release the beta since they are the most social and vibrant communities. If users did start to take off would a VC generally come to us or would we still need to look for them?

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    I would set expectations that you had to go to them since there is a chance that they won’t find you.

  • http://www.phapsy.com/ Lukebeninga

    Alright thanks again!

  • Cyrus sajna

    Hey, Dave,

    what are your thoughts on kick starter 

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    I think it is great!

  • Nick S.

     Where’s the article gone?

  • Nick S.

    This article is missing!

  • http://www.forentrepreneurs.com David Skok

    Thanks for pointing that out Nick. I really need to update it before putting it back on the site. Will do as soon as I get a chance.