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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

I’ve been an avid reader of Dan’s Term Sheet while he was at Fortune , and now Pro Rata at Axios. If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. Mark Suster has written about this.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

As such, you should make sure to think of the proposals as an investor and get a reasonable term sheet. 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? Lean startup (26).