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. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without funding most tech startups will die.
View from Seed
MAY 14, 2019
A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. Third, repeat founders are likely to execute at a much higher level early on. Their early hires are probably much stronger too, which allows for better execution as well.
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Haystack
AUGUST 18, 2019
.” 2/ Lateral Competition – The number of “seed” funds has also grown during this boon. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive. Samir Kaji from First Republic has been writing on this for years.
Rob Go
MAY 14, 2012
Sure, there is more availability of seed capital in the past, although if you watch carefully, you will notice that most of the elite seed funds have slowed down their pace considerably over the last 12 months. Hiring is ridiculously tough, and pools of talent and diffused across many companies.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Implications for LPs.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. If you haven’t yet raised an A-round my recommendation would be that you not yet hire a big, well-known PR firm. It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery. So be careful.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. You dont need massive amounts of capital available for VC investment - modest amounts will do.
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