Distribution Lean Seed Stage Software 
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2015
“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” Barriers to entry are so low in software that new entrants can always steal your thunder and sometimes draft off your early learnings. So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The Case for Traction.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. Pre-seed Round of Funding. In the pre-seed stage, a startup is searching for product/market fit. Funding: Startups typically raise anywhere from $100K to $750,000 in pre-seed. Seed Round of Funding.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I also knew that there was massive opensource software that was available. I've been in venture now twice.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. In addition it is much easier to get distribution than it was in the pre Facebook, pre iPhone world. They should start “lean.&#
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 24, 2012
Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. So VCs invest in different stages.
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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