How can any startup get funding initially?
Ankit Sharma
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Ivan Ralic@ralic
In most cases you do not need any money to validate your idea and even sell something.
When you have validation than there are quite a few options:
➜ Smaller (no equity) local grants
➜ Angel Investors
➜ Pre-seed and Seed VCs
➜ FFFs (friends, family and fools)
➜ Crowd founding (especially for hardware)
➜ Bootstrapping - Either start pre-sales or continue working 40 hours a week regular job plus 40 hours a week on your startup
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