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Why the New Seed Might Be a Bad Seed

This is going to be BIG.

in seed money instead of $1.5M You should target 18 to 24 months of runway post Series Seed." Otherwise, we should just call this new $2.5mm seed round what it really is: Series A circa 2006. We''ll ask for all the same metrics we used to in a Series A--some revenue, a full team, etc., Why not raise $2.5M

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

We should end the year with a few million in fully recurring revenue and we’re projected to double next year. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. Probably revenue based.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.