View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Your crowdfunding campaign. Your crowdfunding campaign hit it out of the park. The post Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding? Should you do a Self-starter campaign for pre-orders? Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Good look at the Harley ad campaign crowdsourced through @VictorsnSpoils – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link].

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. The dating sites are running big ad campaigns right now, which is all the more evidence theyre ripe for the picking. And fewif any Web businesses are so undifferentiated.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list. The best part though is the tenacity link.

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