{"id":22036,"date":"2014-10-24T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=22036"},"modified":"2024-02-04T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:30:29","slug":"answers-startup-financing-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/answers-startup-financing-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers to Your Startup Financing Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Forbes.com, expert Elizabeth MacBride talks about financing and developing your startup.<\/p>\n<p>Branding and developing prototypes are crucial in the beginning stages of financing your startup. Without a concrete model of your idea or product, it can be difficult for investors and backers to get on board.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on whether you are selling an idea or a specific product, different amounts should be allocated for prototype development.<\/p>\n<p>While major branding comes later in the startup timeline, creating an image for your idea\/product is important in selling to backers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elizabethmacbride\/2014\/10\/24\/small-business-expert-answers-to-your-startup-financing-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Forbes.com, expert Elizabeth MacBride talks about financing and developing your startup. Branding and developing prototypes are crucial in the beginning stages of financing your startup. Without a concrete model of your idea or product, it can be difficult for investors and backers to get on board. Depending on whether you are selling an idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unified-manufacturing-news"],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39195,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions\/39195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}