For the Keoughs, it's a stop on a 15-month journey to find startup capital.
Investors included Citi Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Leapfrog Ventures, Seraph Group, and Startup Capital Ventures.
My wife insisted that Silicon Valley continues to reign supreme as the tech startup capital of the world.
The securities law of 1933 makes raising startup capital from your own parents illegal in many cases.
Do roads offset the inability to legally raise startup capital from your neighbors?
Lei provided startup capital for both companies after taking a shine to David Zhao and Chen Nian, the founder of Vancl.
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The saving grace for countries with entrepreneurial energy and sufficient startup capital is that periods like this sow the seeds of rebirth.
As the economy weakens, entrepreneurs face tighter access to startup capital, and employer businesses (which are more expensive to create) see a downturn, causing entrepreneurship rates to decline.
Entrepreneurs can test real demand, and collect startup capital, for hypothetical products through their own custom sites without giving up customer data and high fees to Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
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Startup capital is definitely getting more difficult to secure.
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In three years the crew has combed through 800 applications looking for promising companies that don't need millions in startup capital and that stand a chance of making measurable progress in just three months.
While we gripe about a lack of startup capital, it may be the Canadian startups with the most potential are getting the funded, while the rest are left to bootstrap, borrow, apply for incubators and accelerators, tap into tax credits, etc.
Access to startup capital has consistently been cited as the biggest pain point for female entrepreneurs, but the latest research is beginning to show an inching forward of the angel and venture capital landscapes as the number of female investors rises.
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Remember, the biggest source of new startup business capital in the U.S. comes from entrepreneurs taking out mortgages on their houses.
To solve this problem, Voice Genesis' Chief Executive Mark Marriott started his company in October 2001 and seeded his startup with capital from the sale of his previous venture--a software e-commerce company called Brave New World that was sold to VA Linux Systems in 1997.
One way is to lease or rent the domain name until your startup has enough capital to purchase it.
There was a time when launching a serious startup required serious capital.
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That suit, still ongoing, was the talk of the startup and venture capital community, raising questions about the relative lack of women in venture capital and in technology more generally.
Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee.
Even when starting with less capital, women-owned startup companies tend to build high tech companies that are more capital-efficient than the norm, perhaps because they are used to bootstrapping with less capital.
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They bought a bulk supply of generic cheerios and made up these cereal boxes to generate seed capital for their startup.
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This is not lost on investors, which is why some of the biggest venture capital-backed startup exits last year were cyber companies.
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"The accuracy of tweets is a major concern, " said Zeid Barakat, co-founder of Flyberry Capital, a startup that uses high-speed strategies to trade commodity futures around news events.
Soraa, a venture capital-backed startup, decided to tackle this market first with the Tuesday launch of its first-ever LED lamp, which it says offers brighter, warmer and more focused light for showcasing any merchandise.
The Wall Street Journal Deutschland recently held a tech cafe event in the heart of the capital's startup district, Mitte, and much of the talk around the tables of the Kaffeemitte was on German entrepreneurship.
Executives can mitigate this risk by joining a startup backed by a reputable venture capital firm.
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Corporate venture arms are increasingly getting into the startup game at a time when capital inflows to traditional venture capital funds have cooled.
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We are like a startup, except we cannot raise capital on the open market: we have one funder who can pull the plug at any point.
Sure, it would be better if more startup entrepreneurs were able to access capital, but there is a growing infrastructure starting to emerge to support good ideas.
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