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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. Before the mid-2000s, we mostly had individual angels writing small checks from their personal capital, but over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen hundreds of new institutional seed funds formed.

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

pandodaily.com

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. update will arrive in 2013. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

on a regular series of posts where we would collect a bunch of questions from the local tech community and respond to a few that I think are relevant to a reasonably broad group of readers. We all have full-time jobs elsewhere, but hope to work for our company full-time by the end of 2013.