Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum. Generate Real Revenue. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit. Craft a Small-Scale Machine.

Seed Capital 212

Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick.

Lean 214

Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214

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. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

Vertical 120

Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone.

Technical Cofounder 20

Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Early Stage Cofounder 20

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. But here’s the kicker, the expectations of the micro-VCs who were doing these seed rounds have changed as well!

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Revenues and costs should both be based off of a robust set of assumptions. 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. as a C-Corp in Delaware.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 136

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup SEO 150

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. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.

Seed Stage 136

Seed Stage Post-Money Valuation Valuation Startup 136

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Stage #2: Seed Funding Seed funding (also called seed capital) typically ranges from $100,000 to $500,000 and is often provided by angel investors, and is usually structured as convertible notes or common stock.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

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.

Startup 45

Startup Incubator Seed Capital Venture Capital 45

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. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Iphone development: an italian freelance developer found on the web.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

One recipe for failure (business failure and capital raising failure) is building a lopsided team weighted to one function of the business. If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product.

Part-Time VPE 79

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 334

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses.

Venture Capital 226

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 226

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. 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? Once you’ve done that – then. a new art form?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I’ve seen way too many startups spend all their energy getting channel deals done only to find out that they don’t produce ANY revenue. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. Full Stop for you Brits.)

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Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

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.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

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. VC Cafe: There has been a drastic rise in the number of funds offering seed (or super seed) capital in recent months, especially in the valley.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 227

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 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. Photo Credit: Anne C.

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Papua New Guinea Hawaii Advisory Board Churn Rate 66