Great information, this is extremely useful for small teams like ourselves that sometimes needs the funding to support a great idea and give it visibility.
You have to be careful tough, because as @Ron said, asking for too much could hurt. 5 isn 't a lot, but 30 sounds too much. It all depends on your product, your experience, and most of all, who are you making the deal with How do they see you ...
As a Colombian Game Developer, this was incredibly helpful and very applicable, even if we have to go through a lot of other stuff our national market pretty much doesn 't exist, so trying to appeal to different markets has its own hurdles . As a teacher of game design ...
