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. These challenges put founders in a precarious position because they all contribute to a serious loss of agility.

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Founder Agile Cofounder Seed Capital 256

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly. But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market. Cash (alone) isn’t king.

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Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214

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

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.

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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

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

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.

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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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 emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335