Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 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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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 Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

At that time he was talking about infrastructure monitoring, doing customer development work but had yet to start the company. On top of that we liked the fact that David was being very thorough with his customer development work and the fact that Dataloop was to be his second startup (his first was acquired by Alfresco).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. The Angel/Seed network in Beijing feels fragmented and mostly inexperienced (as are a good number of the China VC’s). Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. In the U.S. Liquidity is via IPO’s not buy outs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. The Angel/Seed network in Beijing feels fragmented and mostly inexperienced (as are a good number of the China VC’s). Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. In the U.S. Liquidity is via IPO’s not buy outs.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2012

From Aberman : By taking away from the equation the coupling of a business model from acceptance to accelerator program, Y Combinator is taking away one of the pillars that seed stage investors use to evaluate an entrepreneurial team. The risk of failure must be compensated for appropriately for investors to want to fund the program.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Acton: I can't prove the assertion, but it's a judgment that I've developed after years of doing this work and is seconded by my launch partners all of whom are experienced investors. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Posted by: twang | 03/02/2010 at 10:00 AM.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

How does a social app such as Snapchat get funded vs say a developer tools company like New Relic? In this post, I’m going to very *simplistically* dive into some high level categories and talk about how early stage investors consider each. These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. For many developer tools that is actually one potential vehicle for PLG. Or there is a developer product put out by a company that builds a kind of a security vulnerability product. Product managers begin to develop many specializations. I really like it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. Before Soylent, I was working on a company building wireless radios.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Posted at 02:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBack (0) | Reblog (1) 02/24/2010 About the Series Seed Documents A decade ago, a company would need to raise a couple of million of dollars to create a new product and effectively bring it to market. The Series Seed Documents have been created to address these issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Stage 1: Idea.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Personas for Customer Development. Customer Development (27). Recent Posts.

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VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

From “napkin” (seed stage) to profitable startups, this site will give you a good set of options. School mates, alumni, co-workers and friends are all great first sources of introductions. link] - a job board selling listings for $99 a month, for developers.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced!

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