For the question of how the company is paid for: your own savings, revenue, grants, accelerators, loans, angel investors or venture capital.
When you ask for help, include:
- What the company does and its stage
- Revenue and growth, if any
- How it has been funded so far
- What you want the money for
- How much, and from whom
- Where you are based
Good threads
- Raising a round: how long it took and what investors asked
- Deciding not to raise, and how that has gone
- Grants and public funding, by country
- Accelerators: what you gave up and what you got
- Funding the company from consulting or a day job
- Revenue-based financing and loans
House rules
- No soliciting investment from members in public threads. Securities rules are strict in most countries, and this is not the venue.
- Nothing here is financial or legal advice. Have a lawyer read any term sheet before you sign.
- Both paths are respected here. Raising and bootstrapping suit different businesses.