I’ll have to give the whole “make a product prototype” thing another try. I’ve been postponing that until have I employees, but maybe hacking together a prototype is good enough to impress some angel investor.
I’ve personally not had much success in seeking out VC and angel investors. Not that I actually tried. I’ve always focused on the technical side of things, but that’s just a result of my educational background. I think the skill required for this is just general social networking that aren’t really domain specific. The work involved to get funding has very little to do with the R&D side of things. It’s just how the world has come to be. Of the teams I’ve worked with on micro-startups of less than 5 people, we’ve not had much success seeking out funding sources, so I can’t really give you much advice there.
I’ll have to give the whole “make a product prototype” thing another try. I’ve been postponing that until have I employees, but maybe hacking together a prototype is good enough to impress some angel investor.
I’ve personally not had much success in seeking out VC and angel investors. Not that I actually tried. I’ve always focused on the technical side of things, but that’s just a result of my educational background. I think the skill required for this is just general social networking that aren’t really domain specific. The work involved to get funding has very little to do with the R&D side of things. It’s just how the world has come to be. Of the teams I’ve worked with on micro-startups of less than 5 people, we’ve not had much success seeking out funding sources, so I can’t really give you much advice there.