Six rules to successfully raise venture capital for your business

"When to Raise Venture Capital or Bootstrap" was the first of a series of events organized by Hyde Park Angels and I871 about early-stage investment in business. (Lucia Maffei/MEDILL)

By Lucia Maffei So, you have launched your own business. You’ll need money. Given this scenario, you have two choices. First, financing your company with your own resources, by scraping every penny from savings or parents’ trust funds. Second, giving up part of your business’s control by partnering with one or more venture capitalists, in […]