The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2016

The exceptions come for a myriad of reasons, common ones include experienced founders are able to raise seed or even Series A size rounds at the pre-seed stage, companies in hot markets or sectors (e.g. current account startups in the UK last year), and situations where tech development or regulatory costs demand more capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

However, investors who demand a board seat, and then want options for being on the board or ask for extensive veto rights over certain operational matters, may be pushing the ask too far. Wayne Embree is an experienced seed-stage investor with a 30-year track record of fueling startup growth through venture capital.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable. In the end, just as always: startups are risky and a majority of them do not survive.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Supply and demand. To start, let’s not forget about the obvious: the natural economic principles of supply and demand apply to valuing your business. your equity in a hot new patented technology business), the higher the demand (e.g., your equity in a hot new patented technology business), the higher the demand (e.g.,

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). It is a tool. They use that tool to buy ownership in a company.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). It is a tool. They use that tool to buy ownership in a company.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding?

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Yes, almost everyone who was operating as a Super Angel, went on to raise a venture fund. Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. In contrast, you *don’t* need much to qualify as a Pre-Seed stage company. Pre-Seed investors should *not* be looking for any kind of traction. Q: Is Pre-Seed investing more risky than Seed stage investing?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Homebrew launched two years ago, Satya and I knew that smart hardware was going to be important to our Bottom Up Economy thesis but also that neither of us yet had meaningful experience working alongside the best hardware entrepreneurs at the seed stage where we invest.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

To address these issues, we designed Andreessen Horowitz’s network to be firm-wide , dead simple to access and comprehensive —supported by operating partners who work full-time to develop and manage each branch of the network. Interestingly, the demand from entrepreneurs has come in all stages and sizes.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

QIWI plc is the largest Russian operator of electronic payment systems and was founded by a group of iTech Capital LPs. Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. One only has to look at some of the recent successful exits of several Russian VC firms. The role of the Russian Government.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

We saw this business growing and built OpenTok in response to partner demand and as an opportunity to create and own this “multi-way video chat across the Web&# category. Over the last three years we have learned a lot about the technical and operational challenges that come with owning and operating a real-time communications business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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Rob Go

MAY 5, 2014

Seed stage investing has developed significantly over the past 7 years that I’ve been in VC. It’d pretty standard for entrepreneurs to contemplate raising an “institutional seed round” prior to approaching VC’s for series A rounds. Many have said that the institutional seed is the new series A.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

For those of you who are time poor here’s the tltr: Forward Partners operates a focused investment strategy because it helps us make better investment decisions and provide better support to our companies. For the three and a half years that we’ve been going, Forward Partners has operated a focused investment strategy.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

5 Surprising Mistakes Found in Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Decks. #1: ” You can make the case that the “what we do” slide is the most important, but in the seed stage, the exact details of the product and even the target customer is a moving target. 1: Founders Often Miss the Most Important Slide.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. You don’t exit at north of a billion dollars unless you’re operating at scale. So VCs invest in different stages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

If we’ve got an oversupply of demand, is this the round your firm usually starts stepping back from pro rata?”. It’s a seed stage company that has demand from insiders and new investors to do a ‘top-off’ in order to delay going out for a Series A. If I can make sure you have your full pro rata available would you take it?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people. This stops with VC-scale money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Any venture capitalist will tell you, "That's why we take a wide spectrum of that at the seed stage." That's why I think that overall innovation has slowed, and a lot of start-ups are just business model innovations or sales, or operational angles. I'm pressured to continually improve my product to the demands of that customer.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong took that question head-on when she joined Reserve , to lead business operations. Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we we don’t know.”.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong took that question head-on when she joined Reserve , to lead business operations. Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we we don’t know.”.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 23, 2010

Just consider that every H1-B visa is snapped up within 12 hours of becoming available and you see how not only demand outstrips supply but an industry has grown up around a flawed system for the sole intention of gaming it for profit. and be comprised of a majority of partners who are U.S. What happens is deportation. and available for U.S.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. As NextView’s David Beisel likes to say, “We live in a demand-constrained world. Accidental VC'

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

on demand billing and fraud management. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. Recurring billing without the headaches. Recurly â?? Subscription billing.

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