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. 2 responses. Statistics.

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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. So that’s that; partnering with another college student introduces a high level of risk but has the advantage of requiring no investment. That’s why you need to be looking for seed-stage investors at the same time as technologists.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. My philosophy was to get as far as possible with a small seed round. Post-Mortem Title : EventVue Post-Mortem.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Here’s the quote from that page: “Burrell Smith’s brilliant digital board provided the seed that the rest of the team coalesced around. Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ).

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. link] Kameko Oliver I definitely feel the decline in enthusiastic investing as of late. Add to this that 72.7%

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. I tend towards a more concentrated approach to seed investing where we make fewer, larger, investments and take an active role in working with the companies we fund.

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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. If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. process in detail.

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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

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. process in detail.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All of them share a couple common traits: they launched before taking outside investment, and they were able to do it because they had a set of founders with the skills to build the initial version of the product themselves. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] and Google.

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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

And once you have done the prototype, get seed funding. The tricky part in my own case is getting the first step of the project down to a small enough size so that the initial investment of paying several programmers isnt more than the cost of the whole project. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives.

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