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VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

Feld Thoughts

Instead we quickly put our heads together about a financing (we like to say it was over beers, but the truth is more mundane – we hammered out the details in a 10 minute conversation in the conference room of the Foundry office). We did a second financing by ourselves at an increased valuation – this was the “Series B&#.

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Honest Tea TeaEO Seth Goldman: Dos and Don’ts of Raising Money From Angels

Campus Entrepreneurship

Recently, I was fortunate to interview Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea, as part of my PhD research on the campus as the frontier for entrepreneurship. Today, I find a small piece of that puzzle, again, offered by Honest Tea founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman. First round of angel financing ($500,000).

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Take the founder of Wrigley's chewing gum, who began selling baking powder and soap door-to-door and giving away gum as a bonus before discovering people wanted it a lot more than soap. For most of my readers, the main concern will be preparing your business for angel financing until the time is right for venture capital.

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Crowdfunding Sites Offer 5 Hidden Benefits

Growthink Blog

To start, Crowdfunding is the process of getting a group of regular individuals (versus banks, venture capitalists or angel investors) to collectively fund your venture. Particularly if you make them feel like founders/initial investors (which you can easily do via email and on your website and/or via direct mail).

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Voting agreement.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship. In fact, if your co-founder is a friend or relative, that should trigger even more issues and discussions.