Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? But that doesn’t mean it can’t be productive beyond obtaining the capital itself : Running a great fundraising process involves crafting real story and not just a pitch. Those three letters.

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Seed Capital Customer Development Partner Developer 163

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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PR Venture Capital Hiring Seed Capital 319

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Today, NextView Ventures is excited to release a pillar project in our Growth Guides series: pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Usually, a more human interaction works better.

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Seed Stage Startup Seed Capital Audience 120

Up and Running

MAY 2, 2014

I learned this lesson when I raised the first round of seed capital for my startup PopInShop , an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. Instead, people want to get to know you, the entrepreneur, and to see your progress, even if over a short time period.

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Angel Investor Seed Capital Venture Capital Early Stage 146

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

Equity 137

Equity Finance Pre-Money Valuation Denver 137

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Colette Pierce Burnette , Founding General Partner of True Wealth Ventures Sara T Brand , CEO and Founder of EverlyWell Julia Cheek and a fireside chat with Capital Factory Co-founder and Director of Diversity & Inclusion Mellie Price and Bumble COO Sarah Jones Simmer.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Turn the question on its head: How could it make sense to lend money to a brand new, seed-stage company with no revenue, no products, and no collateral? (You This is true, although interest is generally paid in stock upon conversion. You won’t see banks doing that.)

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Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

If you follow the writings regarding the Austin ecosystem you’ve probably read debates about the absence of capital. Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital. I have identified the missing piece of the puzzle and you may not like the answer.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

I put that in quotations, because, as I’ll expound, there is a start-up industrial complex that is designed to fleece novice founders from their seed capital with predatory fees, terms, etc. Also, I’m going to start just writing accelerator, because writing accelerator/incubator over and over just reads poorly.

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Incubator Equity Programming Cloud 50

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” I tried early on to engage him with data and conversation, but got nowhere. It caused a huge amount of stress.

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Founder Cofounder Metrics Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. Simplifying the UX of Your Sales-Driven Website to Increase Conversions – crowdspring.co/1fdzKta. How about one of these strange products? What’s up with the Series A?

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. I just didn’t stop.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention. Advice for First-Timers If you’re a first-timer, Kapor highly recommends building a working product prior to pitching.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. We had to raise some seed capital. His number one takeaway is one we have heard again and again. Eren Bali : My name is Eren Bali.

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