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What every entrepreneur should know about financing right now

Version One Ventures

If not, revenue from your customers will be your best source of financing. That’s okay: many great companies have been built by bootstrapping. There’s a lot of “easy” early-stage money floating around right now, but don’t get fooled into taking seed money if you don’t have a viable path for later rounds.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

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. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.)