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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes. Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. The first big idea is that unlike in the 20 th century when there were two phases of funding startups– Seed capital and Venture capital–today there is a new, third phase. It’s called Growth capital.

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How to Avoid Being Part of 90% of Failed Companies

ReadWriteStart

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. Only 46% of these companies were able to raise enough for the second round of financing.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Some of the investments defy explanation… Money poured into something that no one has yet been able to monetise, with a competitive landscape that is over-saturated, and with no real differentiation from what’s already out there. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.&# And they get a few million.