What's the best way to get in front of Mantella? What types of ideas are you looking to fund, or , better yet, what problems would you like to invest in seeing solved? Any stick out?

The best way to get the attention of anyone in business is through a referral. And given that much of your future business success will come from selling and your ability to get to people, consider this your first test and find someone that can refer you to the investors you want to reach. Linkedin has made this a fairly easy problem to solve.

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Where do I find and what's the best way to approach a quality software engineer/architect to help me develop the website I've written my business plan for? I can only pay i...

Answered by Tim Berry – Founder of Palo Alto Software

You know that's hard to do. I'll tell you that with Palo Alto Software when we were struggling and broke but had some solid product ideas, I offered programmers a monthly f... (more)

Once a company has identified the key differentiators of their brand/services, what's the best way to development/nurture business development? Being innovative and differe...

Answered by Jen Evans – Founder, Sequentia Environics

What a fantastic question. I personally relate very directly to your observation that "being innovative and different can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to sa... (more)

When did you learn to code? What's the best way to learn?

Answered by Joe Stump – Founder of SimpleGeo. Posted in Lessons

I started coding in the early 90s at school. Mostly BASIC to make the computers beep a bunch. In HS I got a lot more serious with programming in TI-BASIC and then moved int... (more)

When an investor wants to inject capital into your busines do you give him a stake in business or do you take it as a loan that gains interest.what's the best way to go for...

Answered by Tara Hunt – Founder, Buyosphere

This is an 'it depends' answer. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. In our case, we did our entire Friends & Family round as convertible debt. That was the best... (more)

what's the best way to get funding?

Answered by Farhan Thawar – Engineering at XtremeLabs

Create a compelling prototype that is launched live. Traction is the best way to get funding (revenue is even better!) The days of getting funded on a powerpoint are over. (more)

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