Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). When to start PR? It’s a continual process.

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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. But it’s much easier to identify authentic entrepreneurs going after non-obvious opportunities.

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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. Great execution may allow a “nice-to-have” product to gain early traction. These seem like good things, but again may be a false-positive trap.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. You shouldn’t hire a senior executive from an established company for an early stage startup. Early Stage.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Books that Shape Common Early Stage (Startup) Culture – crowdspring.co/1fLefAN. Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. The mobile future of variable pricing | ThoughtGadgets by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/1epd89z.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.&# One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital.

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