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Series Seed or Convertible Note? Which one is more founder friendly? Which one do investors prefer?

Gust

Assuming the company is able to make effective use of the seed money to greatly increase the value of the enterprise, all of that value therefore accrues to the founder, rather than the investor. That is a swing of 15x from the investor’s point of view!

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. ” Mark – doesn’t the acquiring company mostly care about the super innovative founders?

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. Few startups get it quite right.