Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
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). And, funding moves entirely to production capital, with little to no focus on next-wave technologies.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. 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. It’s lost salary for a period of time. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt?
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
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?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
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). Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. Many term sheets ensued.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows.
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