Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage. Why Has Seed Investing Declined?
View from Seed
MARCH 11, 2020
Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. But in a way, seeing what an investor asks for gives you a sense of how they approach the stage of the business you are in. Having conversations with your existing investors. Meeting with other members of your team. Talking to your customers.
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View from Seed
MARCH 8, 2016
Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. You can absolutely launch lean and scrappy.
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2015
“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. It is true that it pays to be conservative with cash early on and that being lean or being cashflow breakeven gives you a lot of leverage.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” I've been in venture now twice.
Austin Startup
MAY 8, 2018
And the converse is true as well. For that reason, at pre-seed and seed stage, it is not uncommon for *true* employee hires to actually be earning more, from a cash perspective, than the founder CEO; obviously with substantially lower equity ownership. Originally published at Silicon Hills Lawyer.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 11, 2022
At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. These reflections, conversations, side projects, and time with my newly expanded family gave me clarity.
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