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Practical guides for funding, presenting and growing your business.
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series
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Post-money SAFE: how much stays fixed until the Series A?
A post-money SAFE sells a known share at signing, yet the Series A still dilutes it: new money, option pool, pro rata. Worked example from the YC guide.
fundraising
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Fund Your Growth
Use British Business Bank data to frame a UK fundraising round
Use 2026 British Business Bank publications to frame a UK raise without mistaking market totals for your company valuation.
protecting
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Fund Your Growth
Protecting Founder Equity in a Shotgun Buy-Sell Clause
Protect your startup equity from predatory buyout tactics in a shotgun clause. Discover essential safeguards like valuation floors and flexible payment terms.
2025
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Fund Your Growth
How the 2025 QSBS Tax Rules Benefit Startup Founders?
New Section 1202 tax rules allow founders to exclude capital gains starting after a three-year holding period. Explore higher $15M caps and tiered exit options.
executive
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Fund Your Growth
SAS vs SARL: Choosing the Best Executive Status in France
Choose between a SAS and SARL to minimize executive social charges and protect your initial cash runway. Compare salary levies, zero-pay rules, and dividends.
retail
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Fund Your Growth
How to Raise EU Retail Equity and Keep a Clean Cap Table?
Raise retail equity across the EU while protecting your cap table for future venture capital rounds. Explore ECSP rules and SPVs to avoid governance bottlenecks.
emergence
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Fund Your Growth
Guide to Bourse French Tech Emergence Deeptech Grants
Explore Bpifrance's Bourse French Tech Émergence for deeptech projects : eligibility, eligible expenses and a non-dilutive grant of up to 90,000 euros.
benchmarks
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Fund Your Growth
How to Price an Early-Stage Round Using VC Benchmarks?
Learn how to decode aggregate venture data to set a defensible valuation and round size. Separate mega-round distortions from early-stage fundraising realities.
incentives
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Fund Your Growth
Combining CIR and JEI to Maximize French R&D Incentives
Combine CIR and JEI status to lower payroll charges and recoup eligible French R&D expenses. Explore core rules, spending ratios, and social exemption limits.
504
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Fund Your Growth
SBA 504 Loans for Major Fixed Assets and Real Estate
Finance commercial real estate and heavy equipment with long-term fixed rates while preserving company equity. Learn how the dual-lender SBA 504 program works.
506
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Fund Your Growth
How to Choose Between Rule 506(b), 506(c), and Reg CF?
Choose the right seed round exemption between Rule 506(b), 506(c), and Reg CF. Balance public solicitation rules, investor verification, and disclosure costs.
financial
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Fund Your Growth
Financial Modeling for Debt and Revenue-Based Financing
Build a financial model that proves debt service coverage and cash payback to win non-dilutive capital. Stress test cash reserves to pass lender underwriting.
195
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Fund Your Growth
How Startups Use Section 195 and Form 6765 for Tax Savings?
Pre-revenue startups can protect cash runway using Section 195 deductions and Form 6765 credits. Learn how to deduct pre-launch costs and offset payroll taxes.
documents
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Fund Your Growth
NVCA Model Legal Documents Guide for Startup Founders
Use NVCA model documents to review a US venture financing with counsel: compare economic rights, governance clauses, versions and exceptions.
compensation
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Fund Your Growth
Structuring Early Startup Equity and Cash Compensation
Balance early employee equity and cash pay to attract top talent without prematurely diluting your cap table. Explore benchmarks and French BSPCE rules.
operational
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Fund Your Growth
Seed Voting Agreements: Preserving Founder Operational Control
Protect execution autonomy in a US seed round: board seats, investor vetoes and drag-along terms, to be validated with a lawyer.
negotiating
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Fund Your Growth
Negotiating Tranched Financing Milestones Without Stalling Runway
How to negotiate tranched financing milestones without starving your runway: verifiable criteria, cash buffers and alternative performance paths.
5
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Fund Your Growth
How to Close the Books in 5 Days Without Hiring a Controller
Cut your month-end close from 15 to 5 days without a controller: a five-day sequence, hard cutoffs and lean internal controls.
governance
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Fund Your Growth
Cap Table Governance: Balancing Equity Control and Exit Liquidity
Learn how to structure preemption, approval, tag-along, and drag-along provisions to protect cap table control without blocking liquidity for investors.