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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

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. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. I was an early cynic.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls.