View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. Your crowdfunding campaign. Your crowdfunding campaign hit it out of the park. Every publication is different, so there’s no single blueprint. You did it!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Good look at the Harley ad campaign crowdsourced through @VictorsnSpoils – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link].

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding? Should you do a Self-starter campaign for pre-orders? Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor. What channels work best for you product?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising. Paraphrased for the Web, this becomes "getall the users, and the advertisers will follow."

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