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3 Reasons To Seek Only What You Need During The Funding Process

YoungUpstarts

By Paul Jackson, founder of Worthworm. Some entrepreneurs will choose to bootstrap their venture the best they can, while others will turn to trendier options such as crowd funding or a startup accelerator to get off the ground. However, many more will choose to seek funding from investors as a way to sustain growth.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Fundraising: Words of Wisdom from Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen

Scott Edward Walker

Each week, we share our favorite video of successful entrepreneurs, investors or business leaders on a variety of topics. Bootstrap as long as you possibly can.” –Ron So you raise seed money to peel away the first two or three risks.” Is this person rifle-focused and obsessed by the product?’” –Ron Conway (at 1:17).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. When Larry and Sergey first began BackRub (which would eventually become Google), they didn’t run to a venture capital firm or angel investor.