Bootstrapping occurs when a business owner starts a company with little to no assets. Bootstrapping involves no external sources of funding and is so early that the company may be nothing more than a name and an idea. Another important aspect of a startup’s financial planning is to project the business’s cash flow. Bill Brigham, director of the New York Small Business Development Center in Albany, advises new business owners to project their cash flows for at least the first three months of the business’s life. He said to add up not only fixed costs but also the estimated costs…
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Finding the Right Fit: Matching Start-ups with Financing Sources
Aniah raised €6.0M (~$6.2M) in Series A funding led by Supernova Invest, joined by BNP Invest, Crédit Agricole Sud Rhône-Alpes, and Bpifrance. Aniah develops full-chip electrical rules checking verification software. It aims to provide the benefits of formal verification at the transistor level to analog and digital design engineers and claims its tool can exhaustively detect errors while speeding up full-chip analysis. “Aniah introduces a real technological breakthrough in the treatment of electrical design errors for the semiconductor industry. “We struggled to get seed funding in the UK, and had numerous long meetings with UK venture capital financiers before receiving…