The Future of Startup Funding(paulgraham.com)
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The Future of Startup Funding
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The logical next step is crowd-sourced, micro-equity. The only barrier so far has been legal and regulatory but these will be overcome soon.
Isn't self funding the future of start-up funding, servers are cheap, software is cheap, who needs VC's to fund a start-up anymore? Sure once you have a proven business model and profits and you need to scale quickly a VC maybe an option but are you a "start-up" at that stage?
Not all start-ups can be launched with only a low end vps slice running a stack of open source software. There are still a whole bunch of business ideas that require at least some start-up capital.