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VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

Feld Thoughts

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. In this case neither Niel (nor I) had any interest in creating a traditional syndicate to fund the company. A few strategic angels were added to this round.

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The Importance of Robust Angel Ecosystems

VC Adventure

I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. Angels are often unorganized and have scattered and burdensome investment processes. Rvc angel capital summit Seth Levine keynote from Seth Levine.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.