Developer Partner Portfolio Seed Capital 
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. But in an extended seed phase, those old rules of thumb became less relevant.
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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View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
My partner David has also written about this a bunch. This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. I’ll dig into this a bit further… Founder/Market Fit.
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. We’ll likely tread a little more slowly here and partner extensively with our friends in the ecosystem. 3) Health Data Applications.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
Genuine VC
MARCH 24, 2014
A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum. Just plow ahead blindly and hope for the best? Craft a Small-Scale Machine.
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