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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

View from Seed

As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train.

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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

View from Seed

As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmannā€™s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valleyā€™s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

The 2013 Joah didnā€™t realize he was about to run into the buzzsaw that was being black while fundraising in 2014 and 2015, two of the best years for a seed-stage startup to raise funds in Silicon Valley. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austinā€™s seed-stage incubator. 3 Comments.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. and Path Intelligence.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Panelists Adam Berk, founder Neigh*borrow Adam Black, founder KeyWifi Jeff Stewart, founder Lenddo / Mimeo Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons, The New School Moderated by Roo Rogers, President of Redscout Ventures, and Co-Author of What’s Mine Is Yours. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow.

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