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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. Here’s the advice I give these teams who are navigating the tough world of hardware financing.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

On November 28, 2012. Add to this regular angels becoming “super angels” — a much-mocked phrase for when someone goes from investing their own money to investing institutional funds. Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. PandoDigest.

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

www.businessinsider.com

Your Money. Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Googles Money. 6, 2012, 1:09 AM. |. Paul Graham is warning startups against "lowball offers.". What Its Really Like To Go Through Y Combinator, The Most Important Startup School In The World. JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager.

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How to deal with the Series A crunch

Version One Ventures

With headlines declaring that more than 1,000 seeded startups will soon be orphaned, it’s only natural that startups are concerned about the future funding landscape. Seed financing grew from 89 fundings in Q1 2009 to more than 500 in Q3 2012.

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