because all businesses take money to get going does anyone no of any active sponsors that are willing to fun projects if they think there a good idea in exchange for something?

The only place I know of is from forums, try posting on forums, lots are ailling to invest in a good project, the "other offers and requests" section here is a good place to start with

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ha lol, ok thanks ill check it out

id prefer to try and sort a way to provide the money needed my self, that way you wont owe anyone anything and have that hanging over your head while you starting up your own business

True, but some projects are big, they cant be handled by an indivisual, that's why people seek sponsors. However, If your able to start the business on your own, then go ahead, thats always better than having a sponsor who may or may not know anything about the business your in.

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if i wanted to start a forum but couldnt afford a vB license do you think somsone could sponsor us abd buy us one?

what could we give back though?

If its a brand new community, you probably wont be able to offer much, some forums hold contests and sometimes it has a vB license, you might want to look out for those.
My advise is, start the community with one of those free forum scripts like phpbb, once the community grows look for sponsor's your chances would be way better in that case.

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ok so im starting a new forum on a hacked phpbb forum, how hard will it be to import the phpbb DB into vB when we get bigger?

any ideas?

also for the winning a license best-board.com is having a competition to win lots of licenses

I had a phpBB in the past also and the export to vBulletin went flawlessly. vBulletin is a great system but in my opinion it's kind of "heavy" Meaning that the HTML code is so huge.