How Do Convertible Notes Work [Infographic]
After discussing how to price convertible notes, we realised that there is a simpler way to explain…
7 Sources That Give Away The Secret Behind Convertible Notes
Are you issuing a convertible note? Do you want to know the ins and outs of this financing tool?…
Practical Advice On Convertible Notes
Are you issuing a convertible note? Are you doing it to avoid the headaches of setting a…
85% of Italian Startups Struggle to Break € 100,000 Annual Revenues
The number of Italian startups keeps on growing. According to the official register for innovative…
How to Plan a Successful Exit Strategy for Your Business
The global number of businesses bought and sold in 2014 was 11% higher than the year before. As…
Flexibility in Startup Financing: Alternative options
There are several ways to accept external funds from investors. Debt is strict and it doesn’t…
4 Reasons why Cash is King or Why You Should Care About Your Burn Rate
Cash is important for survival. The burn rate (how fast you 'burn' the cash in your business) is…
Crowdfunding Platforms Serve As Information Brokers
In the previous post, we explained how VC funds and crowdfunding platforms can partner up. In this…
Crowdfunding: Information Broker for Early-Stage Venture Capital Funds
In the previous post we analyzed the advantages that associations of Business Angels, namely…
Crowdfunding: Why Business Angel Networks are Inefficient
The Second Generation of Business Angel Networks (BANs) In the previous article I have…
Crowdfunding: Business Angels and the Lack of Suitable Investment Opportunities
Business Angels' Limited Exposure Business Angels (BAs) are the major providers of investment…
The First Fully European Literature on Startup Scaling
This post originally appeared on Medium here ‘All told [American VCs] did not [seem to have] a…
Crowdfunding: The Emergence of Online Investing
Online investing is a new trend in venture capital industry that has arisen in recent years. It…
How to Negotiate with Investors: Pre-money Valuation
Attention from investors is the first thing. We discussed that in our previous post. If you have a…
Investment paid in services. What’s the value?
Investors often own different complementary businesses. Some of these businesses may be focused on…
Better Late Than Never: The Success of Older Entrepreneurs
This inofgraphic originally appeared on the SurePayroll blog here For anyone who thinks startups…
Drivers in Investment-Based Online Crowdfunding
In one of our previous posts, I outlined both the theoretical potential of investment-based…
After raising funds, how to keep your shareholders happy?
After you’ve raised funds, you might forget what it takes to keep your capital providers satisfied.…
An Angel Investor And Economist On Dilution
There are two statements in general you can hear out there related to dilution: Future rounds are…
Investment-based Crowdfunding: Why People do NOT Invest Online
Lots of hyped articles about crowdfunding can be found online. Is everything they describe…
Small Business Funding Series: Hybrid Financing
After discussing crowdfunding, equity and debt financing throughout the month of February, let's…
Small Business Funding Series: Equity Financing
At Equidam, our goal is to provide small business owners the tools to manage their business easily…
Small Business Funding Series: Debt Financing
Last week we looked at Small Business Funding and talked about the ins and outs of Equity…
Crowdfunding Campaign: How to stand out from the crowd
Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular way of financing businesses. Nowadays, the world…
Small Business Funding Series: Crowdfunding
This is already the third episode of our Small Business Funding series. Earlier, we talked about…
10 Ways to Finance your Business
You've got a clear business idea but your pockets are empty. That's okay! As the old saying goes,…
A quick guide to Financial Metrics
When running your business, having the discipline to keep track of your financials might be tough,…
How to attract investors’ attention?
Wondering how to convince investors of your idea? Use the right tools to display your strengths!…
3 Competitive Advantages that set European Startups Apart
This article was originally posted on Medium here. European startups raised $6,9 Bln in the first…
The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs
In some regions - the US and developed Europe - female entrepreneurs have higher levels of…
Are Networks and Regulation Responsible for Slow European Startups?
This post originally appeared on my Medium feed here. A few weeks back I wrote “The European…
Alternative Finance in Europe
What hides behind the term alternative finance? Centre for Alternative Finance of Cambridge Judge…
Startup Valuation Methods
Early stage valuation is considered an art by many. However, as all arts, methods and best…
Understanding Investors’ Required Return
In the previous article we discussed Discounted Cash Flow valuation methods. These well-known…
Equity or debt? The Startup Case
Well, it’s time to get out of the office and find out someone willing to put some money in your…
Financial Projections: an Introduction to Financial Forecasting
This week our Valuation Academy will focus on a very specific topic: financial projections. In our…
Startup Valuation and Division of Equity between Entrepreneurs and Investors
Not the usual article! This article is not the usual article you can find in our blog. Instead…
What do We Mean by Risk
“Risks have to be compensated” “There is a difference between idiosyncratic and systematic risk”…
Valuation Principles: Liquidation, Time Value Of Money, Multiples
Can you actually put a price on something that changes as quickly as businesses? The answer……
Doing Business Financing the Right Way
Do you know anybody who has ever said: "No thanks, I don't need more money for my business"?…
DCF Valuation for Startups
We already talked about projections, cash flows and relevant topics surrounding startup financial…
The European Startup Scene is Still Broken
This post originally appeared on my Medium feed here. Europe is the motherland of some of largest…
Infographic: SaaS Companies Fundraising Uncovered
After illustrating the best places in the world to build up your tech startup, we decided to pay…
Startup Projections, How to Start
As founders and entrepreneurs, we are not only asked to run our team and our business at maximum…
The Biggest Fintech Hubs
Fintech is on the rise! As we have previously seen in other blog posts, Fintech startups are…
5 KPIs to Grow your Business
Business metrics are important measures of company processes, and unlike gut-feeling (which…
How Australia Simplified Valuation For ESOPs
In February, Business Insider published an article highlighting the new mindset of the Australian…
How to Spot an Investor: In the form of an Angel or your Mom
It's been some time since we've touched on the sources of startup financing - where it comes from…
When to Employ Employee Stock Plans
When should you make use of Employee Stock Option Plans? That is our topic of the day, stemming…
Employee Ownership- The Pros and Cons
Last week we talked about reorganizations- and how to get your team through a restructuring of your…
How to Help Your Team Through a Reorganization
A reorganization, an overhaul of a company's internal structure, is a major event in a company's…
5 Financing Mistakes to Avoid
Today, we will continue our journey called Financing. This really can be a considered an authentic…
A Look at Exit Strategies
It might be something you are not thinking about yet- a company exit. But there is a merely high…
Why we love the Lean Startup (and you should, too!)
As we’ve encountered ourselves, starting a business is hard. And fantastic. And time-consuming. And…
The Disruption of Consumer Finance and the Banking Sector
In case you missed it, we previously discussed New trends in enterprise software for 2015 and…
New trends in enterprise software for 2015 and beyond
Earlier, we shared our insights on Technologies that are empowering FinTech. Today we will talk…
EU Value Added Tax to Threaten Small Business
Non-EU small businesses with heavy investment in the digital realm are anxiously awaiting the…
3 Technologies That Are Empowering Fintech
A word from Equidam co-founder Daniel Faloppa Earlier, we talked about comparing burn rates and…
What makes the Silicon Valley the Silicon Valley: My 2-cents
A word from Equidam co-founder Gianluca Valentini I recently came back from a soft-landing program…
Comparing burn rates: Am I the only one spending this much?
A word from Equidam co-founder Daniel Faloppa While much has been said about startup and company…
Do you Know How Much your Business is Worth? Here’s Why you Should
There are many reasons why we do what we do here at Equidam, but one guiding belief stands above…
A guide to entrepreneurs: how to use your company valuation to negotiate with investors
As entrepreneurs, we don’t usually confront ourselves with finance too much. At least, we are…
Bootstrapping vs Investments
As an entrepreneur struggling to find an answer to this question, you probably found plenty of…
With and without VCs, differences in valuation
I want to present my approach on how to deal with difficulty of contracting the value of the…
The Startup Financing Cycle
This article is a sort of an introduction to the startup financing problem. It originated from a…