Doing Business
Bridging financing with lending crowdfunding
What is bridge financing, what is it for, and how does it work in traditional finance and lending crowdfunding?
Francesca Bello
May 30, 2025
Doing Business
Doing Business
Smart money in crowdfunding: beyond raising capital
Let's find out what smart money means in crowdfunding: the real value added by a crowdfunding campaign goes beyond capital.
Francesca Bello
May 1, 2025
Doing Business
Crowdfunding vs. traditional financing
Crowdfunding vs traditional financing: a comparison to understand differences, advantages and disadvantages of each financing mode.
Francesca Bello
February 15, 2025
Doing Business
Equity crowdfunding vs capital increase: differences
Equity crowdfunding and "traditional" capital raising both aim to raise capital to grow, but they have some fundamental differences.
Francesca Bello
January 3, 2025
Doing Business
Crowdfunding to validate your business idea
Crowdfunding is a powerful tool for validating a business idea because it combines capital raising and direct feedback from the market.
Francesca Bello
December 9, 2024
Doing Business
Alternative funding sources for startups
There are several alternative funding sources for startups that can offer greater flexibility and easier access than the banking channel.
Francesca Bello
November 29, 2024
Doing Business
Crowdfunding vs Venture capital: comparing opportunities
A recent TechCrunch blog article shone a spotlight on the added value of crowdfunding beyond raising capital and offered a comparison between crowdfunding and venture capital.
Francesca Bello
April 13, 2024
Doing Business
Difference between pre-money value and post-money value
One of the concepts that aspiring startuppers have to deal with when seeking capital for their business is that of pre-money valuation.To get a complete picture of the topic, one must understand the difference between pre-money and post-money value of a company.
Francesca Bello
March 14, 2024
How to do Crowdfunding
How to successfully match work for equity and crowdfunding
Work for equity is a practice that allows companies to remunerate their employees and contractors by offering them company shares instead of money. It is also a great complementary tool to a SAFE or equity crowdfunding campaign, if used in the right way.
Daniela Leali
March 1, 2024
Doing Business
Crowdfunding to improve your credit rating
It can be difficult for a startup or SME in Italy to gain access to bank credit because the parameters required to have a good credit rating are often unattainable and the conditions to be met following any financing are onerous for these types of companies.
Francesca Bello
February 29, 2024
