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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

View from Seed

Yet the next round of capital is going to be based on what was accomplished, certainly not by how much time elapsed. My partner Rob has a great piece on understanding and optimizing towards value inflection points at a seed-stage startup here.) The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. 2 founders + employee #1), the single employee at the company is a 33% partner in building the company culture and products. Note: I’m not talking about equity.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. 5% I believe.

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The Fallacy of Channels: Startups Beware

Both Sides of the Table

Channel partners come in multiple flavors. If you haven’t already sold enough of your product directly to have enough volume to satisfy your channel partner he/she simply won’t end up pushing it – no matter how excited their MBA adorned biz dev guy was when he inked your deal. Channel partners are no different.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. The overwhelming success of Opensource is a game changer. Translation?