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Post by Rosie on Apr 15, 2014 15:11:44 GMT -6
Funding a startup is probably the hardest part of a beginning business. Seed money is the first step, which not only proves that you have the ability to handles some business/financial functions, but it shows that your are personally invested and believe in your idea. From them on, your must allow your business to gain attention and be noticed by investors, who will fund a percentage of initial funding, which will later be increases depending on success. The five steps are detrimental to funding a startup, and i personally would like to explore them all more in detail to help my future business plans.
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Post by sdoescher on Apr 20, 2014 17:39:03 GMT -6
This video explained an interesting topic. While I don’t think that all companies go through each of these stages, it was interesting to see the various phases they could go through. Having the right people to take the company through the different phases could be just as important to achieving success as having a good product. Many large companies today wouldn’t be around if someone hadn’t presented the company to investors and convinced them of the opportunity the company had ahead of them.
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Post by melanconcaitlin on Apr 23, 2014 8:51:20 GMT -6
Starting any type of business can be difficult task, if funding is not up to par you could be in trouble. I did not know that there was so much work that was put into the funding of a starting company. I always just thought that you had to be rich in order to get a business of the ground. This video was useful for putting into perspective of how a business is actually started.
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Post by robertnicholson on Apr 25, 2014 16:27:16 GMT -6
i currently know some guys who are working on getting the startups funds for. They plan on growing from 1.8 to 26 in around 5 years. It really boggles me that there are investment firms large enough to give risk millions of dollars. I guess i am not one for playing in the big leagues.
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Post by shantel on Apr 26, 2014 11:01:57 GMT -6
I found the video very helpful and enlightening. I was unaware of the stages of funding that business go threw according to its grow stage. Also the video was very refreshing to hear a new topic. This will be something that I definitely use to understand the different phases of a business and its funding. Lastly, I plan to do research on each stage of funding to get a better understanding of it.
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Post by ashleysegalla on Apr 27, 2014 11:41:34 GMT -6
You must ask for money in the correct time. First, you must use your own money or money that people give you in order to start your product. Next, you should get money from people that they will not see returns on for ten years. After that, you may be able to get more funding from people if your company is successful. Next the business will be able to expand. Once the business is 5-10 years old, they go into the sale phase. They can give people their money back that was leant to them earlier.
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Post by karenwag on Apr 27, 2014 18:26:13 GMT -6
Since I plan on starting up and company and I am a senior in college studying business, I feel like I should have known more than I did watching this video. I actually found this video intimidating since I did not even know what was meant by the video referred "VC". I feel like this information is probably very important and I am trying to figure out why I have never heard any of this.
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Post by halearnold on Apr 28, 2014 17:21:49 GMT -6
They make it sound so simple and easy. It's a start to broad stroke answers and at least they make entrepreneurship interesting. I didn't look at the "seed" investment and angel investors the same way until this. The video has sparked genuine interest in wanting to learn more about this process.
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Post by brandonnajolia on Apr 29, 2014 13:29:33 GMT -6
I have always aspired to start my own business one day and this video was very informative about what all goes into creating your own business. Funding is an extremely important aspect in starting a new business and this video presents it in a five step process. Starting a business can take years and you have to be patient enough to wait until everything is ready and you have a enough money between yourself and possible investors to really start the business off on a good foot.
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Post by danielhutton on Apr 29, 2014 16:12:49 GMT -6
The knowledge of knowing how to fund a start up business is very important for managers. The understanding of how a business grows during its different phases. Not to mention, money management is about as important as it gets for managers.
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Post by jimmykotter on Apr 30, 2014 17:02:55 GMT -6
minute mba seems to have very good videos but that one was way to packed for the amount of information that is required when it comes to funding a start-up. although it was very simple and easily divided into 5 phases it was way to simplistic for such a complicated process of funding a kickstarter/start-up
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 10:48:36 GMT -6
How To Fund A Startup
I have never been interested in starting a business. Picking up a business from someone else is a different story. Getting involved in everything that is needed to start a business takes time and too much money. Initial funds are extensive and require multiple loans to spread the risk from one person. The whole idea of starting a business and not knowing if it will bring profit has never appealed to me.
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Post by kourtneyb on May 2, 2014 11:51:00 GMT -6
For some reason I found this video kinda boring. I usually am a little more intrigued with the drawing videos, and to say it was under 3 minutes it just seemed too long and drawn out(no pun intended)
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Post by asmith422 on May 2, 2014 14:18:43 GMT -6
I found this video to be very informative. I am currently in an entrepreneurship class so we our learning about the same things but it was interesting to hear about it in this way. I hope to open my own business some day so the phases described in this video are definitely useful to know. I also thought it was interesting to find out that most investments don't make it to phase five.
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Post by joshuabrungart on May 2, 2014 22:58:44 GMT -6
It's interesting to know how a start-up business gets its funding so that they can in hopes grow to be a big dog in the business world. I liked the way they put it into phases, it was easy to understand. Being a venture capital company could be a scary thing, if the company your'e investing in makes one wrong move...poof all your money gone down the drain, but that's the risk you take trying to turn some money into big money.
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