View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage. Hiring costs are up dramatically The cost of hiring top quality talent in the bay area has gone up dramatically.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 21, 2013

Product / Distribution Fit. My friend Brian Balfour wrote a blog post yesterday about emerging distribution channels and how they impact innovation. One point he makes is that in even established vertical, new companies tend to rise on the back of new distribution channels. Seed stage founder heuristics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Considering that a warrant is often issued to decrease the cost of a debt issuer, the expiration period is typically more than two years after the warrant is first issued. They need to ensure that the shares are distributed productively. It is not possible to shift costs and revenues in a linear manner. Distribution Channel.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Getting funded is hardly the end-all.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By Series Seed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But wherever you stand on that, there’s one very real consequence of this explosion in seed funding: There has not been a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round, the so-called Series A. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The conference will also feature a Technology Showcase, an inaugural demonstration of five very early stage technology companies that is designed to feature the next generation of innovation from the region and further VCIR’s legacy of entrepreneurial mentorship. TopSchool, Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

so that's what I said my exits would be as a seed stage fund. Distributions can actually be drawn out over an extended period of time, but for the purposes of this exercise, I just kept the fund to 11 years. First, seed funds tend to be smaller, and smaller funds do generally outperform larger ones. So here goes.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent. VCIR Launches 20 Promising Companies/Page 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. tells you how much adwords cost. free, distributed source code control management system. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. VC & Startup Resources. SEMRush â??

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