Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. Not my problem. It was May.
Board Effect
JUNE 9, 2021
They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. The first thought that many people have is to start with a large listing or database of start up business grants. It may also be worthwhile to consider hiring a grant writer to champion the process.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million).
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire.
www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. This isn’t a discussion of the merits of Closed vs. Open Source, but it’s worth noting that each Microsoft server costs around $1,000 to license, and their database software costs between £2,000 - £16,000 per CPU (most servers have two to four) to license.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I need money for the servers. No raising money. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
We know this: As many as a thousand companies who’ve received seed rounds won’t be around in a year — maybe six months. There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. The number of seed and angel investors has exploded in recent years, buoyed up by a number of factors.
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