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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). We took the $500k.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? Seriously mean it too.