Board Effect
JUNE 9, 2021
They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. Grant money usually comes with limitations on how organizations can use it. The funds you receive from a grant could potentially cover the cost of hiring professional help.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2015
I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. There are multiple firms that did this. I was an early cynic.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. Before the mid-2000s, we mostly had individual angels writing small checks from their personal capital, but over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen hundreds of new institutional seed funds formed.
www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Why would one chose to develop with a particular framework over any other?
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
One must have at least seed money, or more, to get a start-up going. Essentially credit unions are a way for people, their members, to band together, pool resources, and provide members low cost loans and other small scale financial services. Have you ever heard the phrase “building up a stake?”
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