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

The Startup Magazine

pexels You need to have enough resources by having a seed-stage investor who will financially support your company in the long run. I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. How does the funding for the seed stage work?

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.” So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.”

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. But I am doing this from the vantage point of an investor / Board member, not an operating executive. Because early in a technology company's life, a true operating executive is NOT what the company needs.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). All the investors whom I pitched who believed that email was dead didn’t invest. At the pre-seed stage, there is no way to prove that your thesis is right or wrong. And that’s ok.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). All the investors whom I pitched who believed that email was dead didn’t invest. At the pre-seed stage, there is no way to prove that your thesis is right or wrong. And that’s ok.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Great for visualizing work of product development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors. Guide to Super Angels -Â Chubby Brain. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Kanbanery â?? LeanKit Kanban â?? Acunote â??