Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog. Just don’t spam people.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

If it's not your plan to get venture capital down the road, then you'll probably stop in Stage 2-receiving enough funding to boost your marketing, sales, and infrastructure to grow organically from there to the point where you are satisfied or ready to sell. Each round may raise between $5 million and $20 million or more.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. US-based entrepreneurs can benefit from thinking globally from launch and often need to, in order to sustain growth.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 7, 2014

With venture capital becoming more and more of a bygone dream for early-stage companies, many startups want to turn to angel funding to raise capital but don’t know where to start. Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook. 6 Strategies When Searching For Angel Funding. Want To Learn More?

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David Cohen

JULY 29, 2015

There is four times as much seed capital in the venture market this year as there was 1 year ago. Because of this, it’s easier to attract seed funding than it has been in the past. The founders shut the business down, and either take a job or go out and start a new company with more of that plentiful seed funding.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

Techstars remained involved informally – we hosted and attended events, promoted them, and ultimately funded many companies that emerged from these weekends through our accelerators and venture capital funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. TheStartup.eu Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Meet Tipsandtrip. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

. “I’ve had a few conversations recently about how individual seed investors are getting kind of tapped out – for a variety of reasons, but in general it’s not that easy to find people who are still actively investing. I don’t recall your having blogged about this – are you seeing it too?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. 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. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. I read their damn blogs!

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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