How Funding Works – Splitting The Equity Pie With Investors

Posted by on Jul 17, 2013 in Industry News | No Comments

A hypothetical startup will get about $15,000 from family and friends, about $200,000 from an angel investor three months later, and about $2 Million from a VC another six months later. If all goes well. See how funding works in this infographic: First, let’s figure out why we are talking about funding as something you […]

Wired: Startup Funding Just got a Whole Lot Easier

Posted by on Jul 13, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Recently installed SEC Chair Mary Jo White has pushed through new rules that let startups openly seek out investments through advertising and other methods. Photo: SEC/Flickr For all the transparency and disruption that startups have brought into the world, the process of funding them remains largely opaque and old-fashioned. Money tends to come from exclusive, geographically concentrated […]