Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Primarily targets SMBs.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

CargoX has developed a decentralized platform based on the Ethereum network, and their Blockchain Document Transaction System (BDTS) technology, and it has a pipeline of future products for the supply chain industry? We will finish developing our blockchain-based Smart Letter of Credit and extend our CargoX platform for air freight logistics.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

By developing innovating technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

By developing innovative technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 thoughts for startups & small business on managing the work vs. home wrestling match – [link]. 5 thoughts for startups & small business on managing the work vs. home wrestling match – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you get into the best deals it has never been a better time to be a VC or LP, and the best have developed strategies to capture more value Given that the best deals are pushing out their exit dates it means that many firms aren’t seeing as quick of liquidity as they might have 20 years ago. Follow the money.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Along those lines, I’m excited to work with the NextView Ventures team over the next and final six months of my time at HBS to examine more of the data and help build institutional seed-stage funding into the fabric of the emerging Harvard tech cluster. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. You may end up a company in the difficult position of having to scale back or become defensive, due to market evolution, management blunders, or any combination.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

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 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. is a software startup making it easier for companies to manage and monitor their AI/ML models. And for venture-backed startups this tends to be “get them customers.”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A venture should be run and managed only by people who have genuinely bought into and share the entrepreneurial vision. Procuring venture capital funding or business angels who put up with seed capital or expansion capital can be helpful and exciting.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. As it happens almost every few years there was a new normal developing. The management fee structure provides a perverse incentive to GPs to increase the size of their funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The best case I’ve seen is our portfolio company Osmo who had already built the product but used crowd-funding to handle inventory management, supply-chain logistics and perfecting the final version of the product. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Anytime the financial model indicates that SayAhh will run out of cash, determine how you will raise capital to ensure liquidity and be sure to properly account for the debt or equity transaction on the balance sheet and Cap Table. Tie each round of funding to a set of key milestones in the development of your product/business.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The founders usually get wiped out completely, but existing management usually ends up with new options for between 10% and 20% of the company. But in this cycle, I hadn’t seen it in a seed round. And developing a reputation for recapping seed rounds is, in my book, silly. It’s not pretty, but it happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. But where many startups under invest is in “channel managers.&# These are people whose job it is to manage the channel partners you do sign. But channel partners give you huge credibility.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

From entry-level employees to managers to entrepreneurs, the only way to create long-term sustainability is to develop people who will continue to lead. 12- Raising $500,000 in pre-seed capital. Instead, I want to help coach people across entire organizations to better communicate their value. Photo Credit: Anne C.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Listen to my entire interview with Errol: If you can’t hear the clip, click here. We knew we that needed to duplicate the capacity. We brought on more schools. ….

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

With this funding, the company often perfects its business plan and starts building its management team in order to position itself for its next round of funding. With seed funding, you hope to grow your business and, at the very least, gain proof of concept. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. I think that's actually an incredible positive development. We had to raise some seed capital. I thought these were just websites built by some amateur hobbyists.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 10, 2010

About a month ago, I was honored by the Asian American Development group, a nonprofit organization based in NYC, as one as a Top 50 Asian American in Business. These groups have been crucial to the economic development of this country and fill roles from taxi drivers to researchers in university labs to CEOs to state governors.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. Translation?

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. With some great project management and a few crowdsourcing platforms. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia.

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