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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. The concept of “seed funding” originates from the metaphor of growing a tree, in which the seed represents the initial component required to move forward with developing a business.

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Gaming Investments Level Up: Early Signs of a Resurgence

VC Cafe

The Unity Gaming Report 2024 found that 62% of game developers are already using AI tools, with an additional 29% planning to incorporate AI into their development processes. AI capabilities like automated coding, advanced graphics rendering, and intelligent game design assistants could significantly boost developer productivity.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Our model at Casual Corp.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

In two cases, these businesses were doing significant early revenue ($500K/month+), so could be considered “post-seed”, although both of these companies had not raised significant institutional capital before we led their rounds. Great returns in early stage investing is driven by great deal flow and good picking.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

– Owletcare develops and manufactures a wearable baby monitor “smart sock” that monitors oxygen levels and heart rate and alerts parents in case of an emergency. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. Why is that?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. 3) Raise capital.