Raising Capital For Projects

[Connor Stark]

Who/Where/How have you raised money from partners & investors? What have you learned to be the biggest determining factors of success when it comes to raising capital for a project?

[Bryan Hancock]

The biggest determining factor is your track record.  How do you get a track record?  You start small, eat at your level of sophistication, perform, give investors great returns, and rinse/repeat as you work your way up the ladder.  Doing things this way keeps your ability to execute in level with your investor volume.  Syndicating or fundraising in general is a two-sided business.  You need great deal flow and access to investors and to keep these things in balance, which is hard to do.  

If you do a good job you can either do more or bigger deal flow or reduce your cost of capital for a fixed size of deal flow.  Having access to a steady roster of investors helps a lot and you should explore "crowdfunding" if that interests you.  Learning the securities laws and how to work with investors is a process, but is well worth the time invested.  If you can raise/organize capital you can hire anything else you need.