Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment. Sweat equity.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

In contrast, if you do an equity round, you have to complete the entire round and go through the full due diligence process before anyone wires you money. We hold this to be true in product development, and it should also hold true when raising your seed round. This should be basically free.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. See Also When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. And like feedback on a simple microphone sound system, this would occasionally boil over into screeching.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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