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Alternative Sources Of Capital For Startups Episodes

April 10, 2020

Grants 101: Sedale Turbovsky on how to fundraise through grants and i…

Founder and CEO of Opengrants Sedale Turbovsky in this episode tells about raising money through grants. Who should look into funding through grants, what sorts of startups are eligible for grants and what should you look out for while applying for grant funding or receiving it.

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April 9, 2020

Hiring someone to help you with fundraising? Make sure you do it righ…

Anastasia Green, managing partner of Burgundy Capital tells about fundraising through brokers and how to make sure that you comply with all the SEC regulations on securities offering.

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April 7, 2020

Funding through blockchain: STOs explained by Alex Nascimento, Managi…

What is STO? What are pros and cons of fundraising through it? How to fund any startup through blockchain and how to grab the "lowest hanging fruit" in blockchain fundraising - all that and more explained by today's speaker - Alex Nascimento, Managing Director of 7CC Blockchain Investments.

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Feb. 26, 2020

Raising $3.5 million by creating viral campaign and wasting $10,000 o…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Dominique Wu, professional designer tells how she ran multiple crowdfunding campaigns - watched people become rich and watched people loosing thousands of dollars by making one poor decision. In this episode we talked about choosing the right agency to run your…

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Feb. 15, 2020

Don't want to dilute your share in the company? Raise through grants …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker was Paran Sonthalia the co-founder and CEO of DeWaste, who raised $21,000 exclusively through grants. After realising that raising money at such an early stage will heavily dilute his and his co-founder's shares in the company, Paran decided to…

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Feb. 2, 2020

Immigration law for startup founders and investors. Want to get a gre…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio we had an unusual guest - Sophie Alcorn, a well known immigration lawyer in Silicon valley and Founding Partner & Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law. This episode focuses on how to move to the US if you are a startup founder or an i…

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Jan. 3, 2020

Peanut butter pump raising $140,000 on Indiegogo and airing on Shark …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Andy Scherrer, the founder of Peanut Butter Ventures tells about his experience of raising money on Indiegogo and presenting his peanut butter at Shark Tank. Andy went over the budget that it took him to raise $140,000 on Indiegogo campaign and compared crowdfun…

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Dec. 27, 2019

Founder of InstaSteam talks about how he raised over $100,000 for a p…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Ari Hirsch, founder of an LA based startup - InstaSteam shares his experience raising of raising funds for a physical product, working with Indiegogo and selling products through TV shows. He also explained what is the difference between advertising software vs…

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