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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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8 Keys To That First Investment From People You Know

Startup Professionals Musings

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Tips for Investing in Startups: 4 Risks & Rewards

The Startup Magazine

Independent investors have to get used to the idea that the only people who usually manage to make very early investments in startups, providing the seed money, are the friends and family members of the founders, and of course the founders themselves. Rigorous research is your responsibility.

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8 Guidelines For Friends And Family Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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8 Key Actions for Entrepreneurs Needing Early Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Early-Stage Startups Need Friends, Family, and Fools

Startup Professionals Musings

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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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.