Genuine VC
JULY 19, 2010
It’s clear that despite the varied terminology (Super Angel, Micro VC, Seed Stage VC, Seed Firms, etc.), Both super-angels are institutionalizing “up” and formerly traditional VCs shifting “down” to fill a market opportunity. That’s no secret.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
especially at the earliest stages but if you can avoid it I would recommend it. As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. Whether the seed investor gets a permanent seat or a temporary seat will largely depend on: The size check they wrote (If it’s a $1.5m
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SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
One of the latest companies to graduate from the TechStars Cloud program, Postmater announced it has raised $600,000 in seed stage funding. Capital Factory, Cloud Power and Zelkova Ventures led the round along with angel investors.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2011
In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Part lives in the cloud and part is embedded in point of sale (POS) software systems. seed round from NextView, Atlas Venture, and Google Ventures, and angel investors. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Objective Logistics just closed a $1.5M Author howerl.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. Plus he introduced us to one of the two angel investors who supplied our next round of funding. Now we needed to raise more to keep going.
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