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How to fund the early stages: bootstrap of splash?

Some more considerations for founding teams on how to fund the early stages: bootstrap of splash? Interesting article by Sifted: “Bootstrapping vs VC: choosing the best way to fund your startup“

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Benefits and drawbacks of accelerators

Accelerators come with benefits and drawbacks for founding teams. In particular non-dilution clauses should be considered with care. In our approach we stress the importance of being equal business partners for founders to be able to work side-by-side with founding teams, stay aligned in interests and not get pitched against each other in due course. Some of these preferential rights can get in the way of future funding possibilities or will cost founding teams dearly.

Read more about this topic in the Mt/Sprout article (in Dutch) “Helft Nederlandse accelerators verlangt aandelen van startups“

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Corporate Venture Capital

As the funding landscape for start-ups is getting tougher there are new funding sources as well, such as corporate venture capital, which come with their own limitations and benefits. Our team has in depth experience in this field that can help you navigate the landscape.

For more about this topic you can read the INSEAD article Corporate VC Is Booming, but Is It What Your Start-Up Needs?