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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people.

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ProfessorVC: Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct

Professor VC

Thursday, September 24, 2009. One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). ▼ 2009. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Survey says VCs invest on Gut Instinct. Back to the survey.

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IVC PE Survey: Private Equity Deals Booming in Israel

VC Cafe

Private Equity is relatively less developed than VC in Israel but with deep pockets. The average deal value in Q3 of 2010 also doubled, reaching $35 million, compared to $18 million in the previous quarter and $14 million in the third quarter of 2009. No distressed debt deals were reported in Q3 2009. (4)turnaround/

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.