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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. When launching your company there are 2 times to raise your outside seed funding, and one time window to avoid. when you are just starting, probably no product or service yet.

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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. Share 17 Responses to “How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. No Bootstrapping Plan : Many startups that come out of an accelerator program (such as YCombinator, Dreamit, or TechStars) simply do not get funding.

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Twitter Link Roundup #210 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. How about one of these strange products? A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups.

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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. Y combinator is an example that VC’s should learn from. Translation?