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

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

The first step in any economic crisis is to evaluate your spending channels, and determine where you can cut costs. Short of layoffs, there are other channels for savings. Are you paying money for SaaS services that are no longer relevant or can be taken on by employees?

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital.

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Do the Math

Austin Startup

You want your valuation to keep marching upward; if you took in some seed money with the promised 10X venture return, you’ll hopefully be able to prove that you are proceeding on that trajectory. Maybe a desired distribution channel was more costly or less productive than expected.

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How much capital should you raise?

Version One Ventures

Once you can show traction, with scalable marketing and sales channels, you can get vastly superior valuations. Final thoughts Unless you’re able to bootstrap your startup until you reach profitability, you’ll need to raise money at some point in your company’s lifecycle.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) A) Just launch… We launched RateBrain with no marketing, fanfare, VC money, and we’re starting to see traffic and real traction. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)