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Idea Cafe's CyberSchmooz Financial Feasts Financing message forum where you can get and give insights found nowhere else. Belly up to the table and request funding. Or tell your money tales. Any money talk is fair game except ads. The Latest Hot Topics: Show Me the Money! Belly up to the Financial Feasts table and talk turkey about money… what to look for, where & how? All money talk is fair game. Go   Getting Investors: Equity If you're willing to give up part of your company in exchange for the money you need to make it grow, you'll be looking for investors or giving up a piece of ownership -- equity -- of your company. There are a variety of types of investors, depending on how much money you're looking for, what stage of development you're in, how much control you're willing to give up, and what potential investors are willing to pay for a piece of your dream. Equity investors take many shapes, but they all want to know the same things: Who are you? Position yourself as someone who knows what you're doing because of what you've already done. What do you want? Be as specific as possible: "I'm raising $50,000 to create a prototype to take to retail buyers," or, "I'm raising $4 million to increase our manufacturing capacity 50 percent in anticipation of greater demand for our second-generation product." What will this deal do for me? Investors want to know what their likely return on investment will be. Business attorney Clinton Richardson, author of the Growth Company Guide, estimates that people who invest in start-ups expect to make at least 40 percent each year on their investments; investors who buy into second- stage companies, 30 to 50 percent; and those who come on board at the third or late levels, 20 to 30 percent. Angels (Personal Investors) Venture Capital SBICs Private Placements IPOs -- Public Offerings   --> Enter your search terms Submit search form       Search Idea Cafe Web Small Business Tax Center • Idea Cafe Home • Sign Up • Biz Grant Center • CyberSchmooz •Coffee Talk with Experts • People in Biz Profiles • Starting Your Biz • Biz Planning • Running Your Biz • FREE Trade Publications • Marketing • Financing Your Biz • Human Resources • Legal & Biz Forms • Managing Your Biz • eCommerce • You and Your Biz • Gen X • Work@Home • The Fridge • De-Stress • Send an Award • Send an eGreeting • Yoga @ Your Desk • Web Guide • Idea Cafe in the News • About Idea Cafe • Advertise on Idea Cafe • Contact Us • Privacy Policy • Site Map • Small Biz News • Merchant Processing Services Copyright 1995-2011, DevStart, Inc. Downloads are for personal use only, not for resale to others, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from DevStart, Inc. DISCLAIMER: We hope whatever you find on this site is helpful, but be cautioned that it may not apply to your own situation, or be totally current at any given time. DevStart Inc. and all of its current and past experts, sponsors, advertisers, agents, contractors and advisors disclaim all warranties with regard to anything found anywhere on this family of websites, quoted from, or sent from DevStart, Inc. and its related sites, publications and companies. We also take no responsibility for comments published by others on these pages. TRADEMARKS: The following are Registered Trademarks or Servicemarks of DevStart, Inc.: Idea Cafe®, Online Coffee Break®, The Small Business Gathering Place®, Take out Info®, Biz Bar & Grill®, Complaint-O-Meter®, A Fun Approach to Serious Business™, CyberSchmooz™, and BizCafe™.