Up and Running

MAY 30, 2018

My first company, Digital-Tutors , grew from a startup in my living room with $54 of my own seed money into a multi-million-dollar business with customers around the world. I was proud of the fact that we never used any outside investment money to grow the company. Do you know how many times my phone rang? Not even once.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. Recruit employees in the blind belief that the amazing job they’re quitting to join you will be worth it in the long run. My employees. Many times it’s less.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The $50k seed money isn't a grant, but an equity investment by Capital Innovators. JBara Software , a SaaS-based customer retention tool. The first group of ventures moved in last month, and includes: Yojoe.com , a site for GI Joe doll collectors. DiningCircle.com , a restaurant reservation service.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. Recruit employees in the blind belief that the amazing job they’re quitting to join you will be worth it in the long run. My employees. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

We’ve also improved productivity through some helpful tips to our employees, and become a more streamlined and efficient small business overall. Thanks to Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers ! #3- We’ve seen impressive year-over-year employee growth and opened a second office in the heart of downtown Toronto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. Customers can be reluctant to try something they don’t understand or they haven’t seen before. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Many of those investors, individual and institutional, are still licking those wounds; and as a result, investors today want to see a working business model, and customers that are willing to spend good money for your specific solution. Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from. link] Stan James.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. 2)&# it’s not fair to the rest of the employees who don’t get to take money out. Many term sheets ensued.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. Series A rounds, where you raise a million dollars or more, will be custom deals for the forseeable future. When you make things in large volumes you tend to standardize everything that doesnt need to change.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Thus engineers who have the know how would be an asset. All what you said is so true.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Source AP via Twitter ]. -

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