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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. Other sources of grants.

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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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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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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. Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. First, here’s a link to my recent TEDx talk, “Smiling at success; laughing at failure.”

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. Specifically, 1.

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Early stage money: The problem with PPMs

Berkonomics

The sale of equity in private companies is regulated by the Securities Act of 1933, which requires that the company either register with the SEC or meet one of several exemptions (Regulation D). Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more.

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7 Startup Partner Pairings That You Are Apt To Regret

Startup Professionals Musings

You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” In all cases, once you have decided that it’s time to seal the deal, be sure to establish in writing your working agreement, as well as ownership shares.

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