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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

A follow-up post, titled The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue , on June 5, 2015, explained this further: Pre-Seed is the New Seed. If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? Or if the traction is not yet interesting enough to attract a full Seed round?

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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. Unseen Metrics. The same company, didn’t have a system to accurately identify it’s own key metrics. Would you invest in a company that didn’t know it’s own metrics? Me neither.