Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak Software Corporation. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.
View from Seed
JULY 28, 2016
So if you’re tempted to say “Take Control of Your Data” above a subtitle like “Cloud software that helps you X, Y, and Z,” consider flipping the two. Of course, it’d be nice to list some big numbers, but at the seed stage, that’s just not possible. Drop the pithy statement beneath it.
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K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?
Hippoland
JANUARY 4, 2017
Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. Convertible notes In the 2000s, however, the cost to start a software company decreased dramatically.
Agile VC
MARCH 8, 2012
The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1.
Rob Go
JANUARY 16, 2013
At the time, I was thinking generally about the concept of aggregating demand for products and local services, and just hearing the word “Groupon” piqued my interest. I went to Groupon to find the daily deal site has just launched a couple weeks prior in Boston, after running a few deals in CHicago in late 2008.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it.
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