Conversion Finance Matching Seed Stage 
View from Seed
JULY 8, 2020
Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Yet the landscape for the seed stage has evolved over that period. Download Board Deck Template . Download Board Deck Template.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2013
The confidence, energy, passion and humor that are hallmarks of Jonathan became muted in the pressures of needing to show financial successes to match one’s enormous product vision and ambitions. His vision for social analytics and tracking the conversion funnel was better than any I had heard at the time (or since).
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Hunter Walker
JULY 22, 2014
Hey founders, want to hear something incredibly frustrating about seed financing? Important to make sure your forecast and your operating plan match up! Revenue runrate that you believe is required to raise additional financing. I don’t believe the forecast you show me. Yeah, that one. Top Down Forecasting.
Agile VC
JANUARY 12, 2012
When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.
ithacaVC
APRIL 5, 2011
Additionally, at the seed stage, investors and the company might want to issue the investors convertible debt to avoid the question of valuation. The company is at the pre-seed stage, and the outside investment would qualify the company for an additional grant from a government source (matching funds).
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 15, 2020
"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below.
Austin Startup
MAY 19, 2018
This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. The number of those VCs who didn’t know our stage or who had some other part of their thesis that we didn’t match was also staggering.
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