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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics?

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics?

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The Future of Health: How We Think About Investing in Healthier Living for Everyday People

View from Seed

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.” A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.