ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 18, 2011
At the end of their mentoring period, each venture will pitch their business to local and national investors in a "Demo Day.". The $50k seed money isn't a grant, but an equity investment by Capital Innovators. It is an interesting idea, and one that has been tried in other cities that have more of a tech heritage than St.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.
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www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. So if youre developing technologyfor money, youre probably not going to be developing it for peoplelike you. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." This is calledseed capital.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.
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