Early Stage Equity Seed Capital Silicon Valley 
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 9, 2018
Raising seed capital is a tricky business. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed.
Gust
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Last week , we gave some attention to the “why” behind convertible note financing for early stage startups. At least one well-known Silicon Valley venture accelerator is using a document referred to as a “ convertible security ” rather than “convertible promissory note.” These deal terms are simple but significant.
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Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2015
My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.
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