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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

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.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

Feld Thoughts

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network? We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. First Name.