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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’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks. TheStartup.eu

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. This usually consists of personal savings, credit cards, and small loans from relatives (Mom, Dad, Uncle Bob, etc.).

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The New Reality of Entrepreneurship | WSJ.com

Campus Entrepreneurship

The article highlights some bootstrapping entrepreneurs who are, by necessity, taking longer to grow their new ventures. Lack of seed capital (home equity lines of credit, friends/family) is a major problem. (Is Newly opened companies created a seasonally adjusted total of 2.6 This is the new reality of entrepreneurship.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities).