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Financing with grants, not equity or debt

Berkonomics

The effort to write a grant request is not trivial. Email readers, continue here…] Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. The post Financing with grants, not equity or debt first appeared on BERKONOMICS. And often, grants come with detailed accounting and reporting requirements.

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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators. Venture farms.

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Equity financing: great for rapid growth startups

Berkonomics

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Email readers, continue here.] With angel groups, you should plan of spending months in the process, from application through funding. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Ghost itself closed on a Series A equity round of $13 million, along with $7 million in debt, in June. She went on to write, “Dee and Josh are the exact right team to tackle it.

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Can you finance your company with grants?

Berkonomics

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. email readers, continue here.] In general, grants are made to individuals, companies, businesses, organizations or institutions that are working toward serving the greater good or a greater cause.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process. The buyer is shopping for equity in startups and the seller is looking for cash in exchange for equity and shared governing control of his or her company. A brochure is an easy out for you in the sales process without being rude. It felt like heresy.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

Both Sides of the Table

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. Should entrepreneurs have convertible debt or priced equity? I read 95% of my email.

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