View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Just to discuss a few benefits more in-depth… First and foremost, getting into a regular cadence readies the company to think and operate more professionally for later rounds of financing. For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.)

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Other sources of capital. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Just ensure you understand your numbers and manage them well. $50 Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. What you measure, you manage). Government grants – Credit cards / debt.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

To do that means that you have a large enough fund to write a $3-$5M series A check, which is great, but creates a lot of misalignments that true dedicated seed funds have. Given this definition, we continue to see dedicated seed funds providing strong benefits for founders, including: Minimal signaling risk at the next round of financing.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Think Again. just my 2 cents. Translation?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, there's definitely the feeling that you just, sometimes you didn't belong. That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. We had to raise some seed capital.

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