cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin. We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Liquidity – How?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

ReadWriteStart ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteStart All Posts Archives Featured RSS Twitter Facebook Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets (..)

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes “First they ignore you. of the Series Seed Documents as well as a red-line showing the changes I’ve made from the original set. 

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

I think that enterpreneurship programs are just the departments to foster the study of sales…plant the seeds for using a scientific approach to studying and learning sales that could ultimately spin-out as a major discipline on it’s own. And alas, there we are…no one to teach sales in academia. So what’s the solution?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Share this on Linkedin Seed this on Newsvine Share this on Devmarks Add this to Google Bookmarks Add this to Mister Wong Add this to Izeby Share this on Tumblr Share this on Tipd Share this on PFBuzz Options. Tags: startupcto. Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post? WHERE ARE YOU?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Tags: startupcto.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

About the Author Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions. Tags: startupcto. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Click here to learn more about his practice.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. seed round today. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How To Think About The Future.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My philosophy was to get as far as possible with a small seed round. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. Post-Mortem Title : A Happy Failure Story: Lessons Learned From My First Startup.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

These are usually insignificant amounts once a business is proven but can seriously eat into seed or first round capital. Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency. XML sitemap.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. That’s why you need to be looking for seed-stage investors at the same time as technologists. Tags: startupcto. Until your wireframe is done, it’s too early to talk to developers or potential investors. Blog at WordPress.com.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) True seed funded Meebo and it has been a [.] link] Rockstar Sid Wonderful post. You’ve really motivated me. +1

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Share this on Linkedin Seed this on Newsvine Share this on Devmarks Add this to Google Bookmarks Add this to Mister Wong Add this to Izeby Share this on Tumblr Share this on Tipd Share this on PFBuzz Options. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. ITA Software. Trending Videos.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

According to Graham, Google Ventures, a venture-capital firm backed by the tech giant, has systematically been offering to make seed investments in recent Y Combinator graduates, but only on substantially more favorable terms than other investors received. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Full Archives. Categories.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As for the "Hollywood is not a place for startups" - well probably yCombinator is currently only suited for the valley, however a startup that already has a seed investment, and has a reasonably crafted business plan, does not *have* to be in the "meet all the dudes in the coffee shops" scene. method=post. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply Are the best Seed deals moving out of the Valley? Reply Startup Weekend Lesson Learned #2 – Customer Development | startupSQUARE's blog , on August 5, 2010 at 4:15 am Said: [.] Blank‘s commandment of “Get Out of Building&# is exactly what Katherine Webster from our team did. We had an application designed to [.]

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. You had better have proven revenue, explosive growth, and an exit right around the corner if you want anything more that seed capital.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

And once you have done the prototype, get seed funding. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives. Tags: startupcto. Its just a longer road, so dont give up your day job when doing it. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Your thoughts?

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