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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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To Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising or to Not Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising? That is the Question.

This is going to be BIG.

You think you're getting this big fat check compared to the seed money you raised, but they're actually doing something more like dipping their toes in the water. Here's something else to consider--the getting to know you phase has very different expectations than the due diligence phase. It's less signal than you think.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

“[Dune Sciences] asked at least three of the member investors to drop by their offices in the week or two preceding the due diligence and pitch session,” says Tim. They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. Operated by the U.S.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

.&# And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Microsoft made a half-hearted attempt to “open” the languages by publishing an ECMA standards document, and there is an Open Source implementation ( Mono ) available, but for the most part development with.NET requires use of Microsoft operating systems and licenses.