The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You may end up a company in the difficult position of having to scale back or become defensive, due to market evolution, management blunders, or any combination. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. But it will still be your company.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. more traction means it takes longer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

.” 2/ Lateral Competition – The number of “seed” funds has also grown during this boon. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive. Samir Kaji from First Republic has been writing on this for years.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. Large companies also provide an important ‘exit strategy’ for startups.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Doing so would reduce costs for companies while still adhering to the first principle of investor protection.". In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last December, Kate Mitchell, former head of the NVCA and currently Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners, stated that EGCs were overdue for relief. "In Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Some founders pointed out that disconnecting from what their opponents were doing did not allow them to see that they had already managed to solve the market problem more efficiently. To set a lousy price in relation to its quality and cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. We had to raise some seed capital.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. It required a small investment of time and money to get QuickBooks up and running, but it was a manageable distraction from building SayAhh’s core product. as a C-Corp in Delaware. Build a financial model that forecasts the P&L. historical data).

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I personally think there should be a shift generally to funding smaller ideas, that are innovative enough to not cost millions to build and run, that may still net similar returns (30-50 times) but are less risk since they’re smaller. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. With some great project management and a few crowdsourcing platforms. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. TheStartup.eu

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Just ensure you understand your numbers and manage them well. $50 I become obsessed with the industry. LinkedIn might work.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Sort of amortizing the costs of their sales reps over more products. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. So Should I Avoid Channels at all Costs When I’m a Startup? That’s going to cost you margin. If they have $1.2

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