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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

View from Seed

Think of your seed capital as a way to empower you to reach that important milestone in order to raise the next round immediately after … not leave you just shy of the interim prize. Although the process of determining the right fundraising amount for a seed round involves some Excel work, it’s certainly an art, not a science.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. I suppose he probably has both a day job and a passion for photography. Like oDesk.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

He built & IPOd Demand Media. The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore. Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.),

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

We live in a demand-constrained world and if, with your Seed capital, you can show overwhelming top-level pull (whether consumer or businesses adoption), Series A investors can convince themselves that the rest will fall into place over time. Generate Real Revenue.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.

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