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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. You need a wedge. ”

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Getting feedback on your pitch is a great idea; the more people evaluate your pitch before your investors see it, the more chances you have to catch any errors in reasoning, assumptions that are unclear to your audience, or things that just simply don’t make sense or flow well. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.

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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first. The answer to the age-old question of whether your business should be trying to make money or raise money is almost universally the latter.

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

YoungUpstarts

By Paul Jackson, founder of Worthworm. Looking back to its origins you find it began with just $20,000 in seed money. Skype is another great example of a company that began with just $250,000 in angel investment and when on to steadily grow until it was acquired by Microsoft.

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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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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first. The answer to the age-old question of whether your business should be trying to make money or raise money is almost universally the latter.

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