Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Rob Go

JANUARY 20, 2015

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. There is plenty of appetite for good seed-stage investment opportunities.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Finance Seed Money 28

Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. We all have full-time jobs elsewhere, but hope to work for our company full-time by the end of 2013. On the accelerator question, it depends on the accellerator.

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Bootstrapping Finance Dividend Vesting 46

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93