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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund.

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We’re looking for entrepreneurs to join us at Forward Partners

The Equity Kicker

About half our investments are in companies at true startup stage – i.e. founder + idea, nothing built – and half are in slightly more mature companies, up to late seed stage when there are maybe 5-10 people in the company.

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Primer On Funding Trends for Early-Stage Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Lean startup. Super Angels.

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Lean startup. Super Angels.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. andrewchen.co. Follow AVC on Twitter @avc, f ollow Fred on Twitter @fredwilson.