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How to Avoid Being Part of 90% of Failed Companies

ReadWriteStart

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. Only 46% of these companies were able to raise enough for the second round of financing.

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Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future

Rob Go

Here’s my take on the state of things as they stand at the end of 2012. THE DEDICATED SEED STRATEGY CONTINUES TO HAVE STRONG BENEFITS. I call “dedicated seed funds” ones that at their core, make seed investments. These are not funds that “do seeds but pile in on the winners”.