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Once You've Sold The Product because of... Business Advantage, Financial Security

When should you seek funding for your web startup?


If you're doing a web startup, it's your first startup, and you are capable of building the technology on your own, when should you start to seek funding Business » Startups

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  • Business Advantage
  • Contacts
  • Financial Security
  • Maintain Equity
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  • blake
     
    blake member since Sep 21, 2008
    help for this decision...
    Best Option Pick: Once You've Sold The Product
    Options Suggested: When You Can't Go Any Longer Without It, Once You've Built A Prototype, Once You Have An Active Group Of Users, Never, Once You've Sold The Product Once You've Build A Prototype
    Criteria Suggested: Financial Security, Business Advantage, Maintain Equity, Contacts
    Reasons Suggested: 19  (avg points: 3.8/5.0)
    Reason Comments: 1
    Ratings: 21
    score: 111.3
  • richesh
     
    richesh member since Sep 21, 2008
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    Best Option Pick: Once You Have An Active Group Of Users
    Reasons Suggested: 2  (avg points: 3.0/5.0)
    Ratings: 21
    score: 35.7
  • good002
     
    good002 member since Dec 31, 2009
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    Discussion Comments: 1
    score: 3.0
  • jainmohi..
     
    jainmohit29 member since Jan 28, 2010
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    Discussion Comments: 1
    score: 3.0
  • valyer
     
    valyer member since Jul 22, 2009
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    Best Option Pick: Once You Have An Active Group Of Users
    Ratings: 1
    score: 2.0
  • chaitime
     
    chaitime member since Jul 05, 2009
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    Best Option Pick: Once You've Sold The Product
    score: 1.0
  • rob
     
    rob member since Jul 06, 2009
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    Best Option Pick: Once You've Sold The Product
    score: 1.0

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