3 Funding Options (Pros and Cons of Subsidy, Loans, and Fundraising)
It’s always way cooler to sell your product than to sell your shares. It’s always way cooler to sell your product than to get distracted with subsidies or loans that you have to repay. The main thing to say about raising funding is always: only do it when necessary. Before taking someone else’s money it is…
Possible Funding Options for Startups: Loans
Startups need money to grow. Therefore, they have to raise funding. The basic financial instruments for startups are the following: You can sell your shares You can get a loan Or you can use convertibles This film is about getting a loan. Loans are common practice and intuitive to understand. So they should be a…
How to Raise Funding for Your Startup on LinkedIn
We believe there is enough capital out there for every good idea. By offering an Angel network and a standardized investment structure small investments become possible through Leapfunder. There is power in numbers and many smaller investors can still bring together a very significant starting capital. We aim to introduce startups to an extensive European…
Reasons Why Founding a Startup in Berlin Will Ruin Your Life
Starting a startup is tough. It could probably ruin your life wherever you are. What do we mean by ruin your life? After you’ve embarked on a startup journey, and felt what’s it like to move fast and break things, it is highly unlikely you will ever be happy again climbing a corporate ladder. After…
Fundraising 1: Create Your Funding Roadmap
In our new ‘Raising Funding for Your Startup’ blog series, we will lead you through six steps of raising funding. The first step, and therefore, the first blog, is dedicated to creating a funding roadmap. It allows the startup to get organized and answer potential investors’ questions. Businesses without a plan can easily get off-course….
Video Media Group: Innovative Video Solutions
Video Media Group (VMG) offers innovative and powerful proprietary video solutions that create video advertising inventory and monetization on all screens. At the moment, the VMG InPageVideo advertising format is their most successful video advertising format for web publishers and advertisers. Find out what problems they’re trying to solve, what kind of investors are they…
Trunkrs: Love to Deliver
Trunkrs is an innovative logistical delivery company with a strong focus on the end receiver. Because a perfect delivery is the start of recurring customers! With smart IT solutions, they create services that make life easier for both consumers and organizations. Their aim is to become the most inventive parcel delivery company in E-commerce. Find…
Hugsy: The Best Possible Care for Babies
We interviewed Sylvie & Jody, the co-founders on a quest to give babies the best possible start in life! Hugsy is a smart blanket that makes the positive effects of kangaroo care last longer. Find out more about this amazing startup, the problem they’re trying to solve, their growth potential and plan to acquire customers….
Fitmanager: Healthy Lifestyle for Everyone
Fitmanager is an online software system (SaaS), for both clubs and their members, that takes care of all the things people don’t want to waste their time on (planning, administration, communication or payments). It has been created with an idea that exercising and leading a healthy lifestyle should be accessible to everybody. Recently we got a…
The Differences Between the US and European Startup Ecosystems
Startups tend to succeed as part of a community or innovation ecosystem. The US and European startup ecosystems are quite different. While Europe’s scene is definitely on the rise, the US is still out in front when it comes to attracting investment and delivering new innovation. The two ecosystems differ in financial and intellectual capital,…
