View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. And do your customer development.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Given the expanded user base that will surely come starting today, I’m sure the team of agile developers will have even more great ideas to implement in Workstreamer. The company was founded with seed capital from Austin Ventures. For the geeks in the audience, all the software is in the cloud.

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Intellectual Property Austin Early Stage Agile 79

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 235

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. The effort that went into making all those unused features was wasted.

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