Determine the Funding Required According to your Current Business Stage

Development

• First stages of development
• Do I have a business plan?
• Am I ready to market?
• Has legal been set up?
• Accounting?

Start-up 

• Founder is completing an initial validation of a business concept.
• Financial resources will be minimal.
• Mostly self-funding or loans from friends and family members.

Growth

• Raising money to generate growth and expand reach.
• Loans
• Venture capital funding

Maturity/closing

• IPO to raise money in the public markets and achieve liquidity for investors.
• Exit transactions through mergers or acquisitions.