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

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. While pedigree is often a factor for funding consideration, some investors simply don’t care. .&# “I hate the phone,&# he says.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days. For most companies, it is simply a non-starter.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

As Steven Covey said, you'll want to "begin with the end in mind" and not make arrangements with your angel and/or early investors that will complicate later stages of funding. Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Series C, D, etc.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone.