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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. In contrast, you *don’t* need much to qualify as a Pre-Seed stage company. Pre-Seed investors should *not* be looking for any kind of traction. Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured?

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Out of fairness, that’s why they wanted to hire me, to fix that issue. Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure.