Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
But my conversations in the private corridors on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is that many fund sizes will be smaller going forward. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. Others will, too. This only becomes noticeable in down markets.
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David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC: Compensation-based.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 3, 2019
Balanced growth vs. growth at all costs: No conversation about 2019 will be complete without considering the uncertain economic, financial and geopolitical environment in which we are currently living. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality.
Mucker Lab
APRIL 6, 2023
Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales? That’s the success.
www.seriesseed.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link]. Posted by: TC | 03/04/2010 at 07:47 PM.
K9 Ventures
MARCH 23, 2011
There has been a lot of noise in the Valley lately about how most seed stage deals are now being done as convertible notes. The typical fix for this problem is to put in a cap in the note for the pre-money price for conversion. What percent of the company should the note holder get on conversion? Why would you do that!?
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