Write Up #8
Group Members:
1. Achas, Vanessa Mae A.
2. Dela Salde, Jehangrace G.
3. Lao Singuan, Mary Lie B.
4. Salutan, Riza May Y.
5. Tokong, May Ann A.
Entrepreneurial Finance
There are indeed different ways in raising money to fund your start-up. So, what are the different
ways of raising money for your start-up? Raising capital for a start-up has never been easy. At
the onset most entrepreneurs try to build their business through bootstrapping using personal
income and savings, credit cards, and even mortgaging their home. Many of today's largest
corporations like Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft began as bootstrapped operations.
So if you can no longer finance your business out of your own pocket, you will have to approach
other people for funding. Investors are typically segmented by life cycle stage of the business.
The type of investors you will attract will depend on your start-up station development. It is
typical for seed funding to come from people who know and love you like family, and friends.
Naturally these people want to support you and help you succeed are less likely to demand a high
return on their investment. Friends and family investment are usually small and made in a very
informal way and used for early validation. When to test assumptions to their actual target
market and customers you may also seek funding from government grants, business incubators
and start-up accelerators like idea space, y combinator 500 start-ups and launch garage who not
only provide seed funding which can be anywhere between $10,000 to $250,000 but also provide
general business assistance mentoring and training to to start-up entrepreneurs. Funding from
