What are some typical equity capital raising stages prior to initial public offering?

No. You won't get a salary. In fact, you have to invest your own money too and sell your car or house or apply for a loan. If you don't risk your own money in the business nobody else...

Banks offer unsecured loans if you have a good credit rating. Alternatively if you are based in the US you can get unsecured loans from www.prosper.com. You will be borrowing from other individua...

first purchase a book on the beverage business, second, read it!

With the inception of a share options grant, no capital is raised and no accounting entries are created. If and when they are exercised, the share option reserve is reduced and your share capital i...

Generally speaking, a corporation should probably do what all the other corporations do. Google is leading the way at trying new things in corporate world. Surely others will follow after witness...

Depends on where you are located. If by raising capital you mean selling shares, then you must register those shares with the SEC if you are selling them to US investors. Similar laws in other j...

You can not offer or issue stock to anybody if you have no authorization to do so - From what I read in your question, you are making a presentation to venture capitalists, asking for financing cap...

The issuance of stock has to be authorized in accordance with the companies organizational documents (by-laws and certificate of incorporation) and the relevant corporations law. Generally speak...