Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thus the venture capital industry isn’t dead yet, despite all the rumors, and more startups are getting money, even at Series A and later levels. The explosion in seed funding, without a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round (Series A), may mean that you can’t get a second round and will be “orphaned” or die.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Denver residents enjoy a significantly lower cost of living; housing costs are half that of the SF Bay Area while utilities, food, transportation and healthcare are 15 to 25 percent less. percent, typical tech worker income tax in Denver is half of that in California (9.3 A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons. I told entrepreneurs that it was a bit of a Faustian bargain. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. The number of seed and angel investors has exploded in recent years, buoyed up by a number of factors. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

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