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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. When we moved to Palo Alto we rented a place.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Theres something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology.

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