Version One Ventures
APRIL 30, 2013
While my portfolio is primarily centered around consumer internet as well as enterprise SaaS startups, I typically talk to two to three hardware startups each week. Instead of taking a year to develop and launch one product, it might be advantageous to run through four development cycles in smaller batches.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. After that, she used a combination of high-tech and low-tech to develop her idea. “I
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Internet scale. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people. So which company is better run?
YoungUpstarts
JULY 17, 2020
Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Ride-share companies are pivoting toward food and grocery delivery, restaurants are working from “ghost kitchens” and developing new menu concepts conducive to drive-ups and leaner budgets.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". Television disruption seems right around the corner, with Apple working on the in home viewing experience and lots more consumers getting internet connected devices plugged into their TVs. Perhaps I need to rethink that.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.
Hippoland
AUGUST 17, 2016
A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. I think my total legal bill for getting my seed round done for LaunchBit was something like < $3000. You just don’t have time or money to worry about making things clean now.
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