Comments on: What does it really take to attract investors to your startup?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:47:49 +0000

I found a good article about funding small businesses and real estate investors. They offer 0% APR, no financials needed, and they really help start-up businesses. The article can be found at - http://bestsitereview.com/moneylending.

By: pat

pat — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:54:39 +0000

Ladar Cleaning Service start up
http://www.indiegogo.com/ladarofmistartup
Ladar Cleaning Service is a woman owned and operated Commercial cleaning services. The purpose of this is to help bring in some capital to buy cleaning equipment

By: Sherry Darden

Sherry Darden — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:16:50 +0000

As an 8 year small business and consultant in my business and the SBDC, I can appreciate this article. Weekly I get a client looking for and “angel investor” or venture capitalist, looking for money. One of my normal recommendations I make is for them to view reruns of The Shark Tank. This helps give them an idea of what investor are looking for, their agenda or objectives for possibly investing in their venture. This also gives them a reality check that with the monies invested comes some surrendering of their business that is normally majority interest.

The next recommendation is to create a business plan that they know, is realistic, and has some backing to it.

Sherry Darden
The Business Plan Lady

By: Ruth Hedges

Ruth Hedges — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:33:35 +0000

It takes registering your startup on http;//startupsacrossamerica.com to help accelerate your access to capital, and restart the engine of economy.

By: Corey Kossack

Corey Kossack — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:30:40 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the question. I’m by no means an expert here (or a lawyer for that matter), but here are my thoughts on the subject. The best way to dabble with patenting is to file a provisional patent which allows you to effectively “hold your spot” for the patent for a year before you need to decide if you want to go forward with the full application. This can still be expensive if you go through a patent attorney, but you can also do it really cheaply through sites like Legalzoom, bearing in mind of course that you are not likely to produce a perfect application on your own. All that said, patents are great if you have something that is REALLY protect-able and investors love to see IP, but many things are not that protect-able and investors may not care much about the patent filing if they don’t believe you’ll be able to defend it in the end. Hope that helps.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:20:35 +0000

Thanks for the article. Interesting points. My question is this: Let’s say you have an online software application that performs xyz functions for people. They are using it to a limited degree in beta. Before you speak with VCs about it, is it necessary/desirable to have the application patented? What are the issues surrounding software patents for Internet applications? Have other online companies patented their software before showing it off to the public and/or VC? Any thoughts along these lines would be great. Thanks!

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