The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

which will help with recruiting employees, finding the best partners, fast-tracking distribution in key countries, and landing marquee customers. Furthermore, given the government’s programs to attract top notch VCs and tech companies, it has become a great place to raise capital and base your Asian operations over the past half-decade.

Asia 123

Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

5 Surprising Mistakes Found in Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Decks. #1: ” You can make the case that the “what we do” slide is the most important, but in the seed stage, the exact details of the product and even the target customer is a moving target. 4: Many Decks Fail to Mention a Distribution Strategy.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Seed Stage Boston Startup 120

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have?

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Step 2: The Seed round – you raise $1-$3M (in some cases even $2-5M). Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. And what used to be a seed round a decade ago is now a pre-seed round.

Cofounder 431

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

They need to ensure that the shares are distributed productively. To provide an accurate prediction, an analyst would need to have a thorough understanding of the company’s operations. Distribution Channel. Therefore, CEOs have strong reasons to issue stock options. Equity for Co-founders. What is startup valuation?

Valuation 108

Valuation Equity Warrant Common Stock 108

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong took that question head-on when she joined Reserve , to lead business operations. Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we we don’t know.”.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong took that question head-on when she joined Reserve , to lead business operations. Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we we don’t know.”.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. Understanding the market and establishing product/market fit is a critical seed-stage milestone.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g.,

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Series Seed Documents â?? Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Startup Threads. SlideShare.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53