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How to Start a Startup

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We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. This is calledseed capital.

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

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A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. But in this cycle, I hadn’t seen it in a seed round.

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Which language should my startup use?

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First of all, PHP powers a number of content management systems (CMS) – such as Joomla! Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap.