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Financing a Start-Up

Tech Coast Venture Network

Often, this also involves a HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) if you’re a home owner with equity. Once you have some skin in the game, if you personally can’t get to some level of revenues in the business, or at a minimum, pre-sales or letters of intent, then on to round two – asking family and friends for help.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. TCVN News' By Monica Mehta. million in 2010. Recognize that investors come from unlikely places. million in angel and venture capital.

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