Hippoland
AUGUST 17, 2016
A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. Just do a Google search. In general, I’m a big fan of convertible notes or convertible securities for seed stage founders. This happens more than you can imagine.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world?
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pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
But wherever you stand on that, there’s one very real consequence of this explosion in seed funding: There has not been a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round, the so-called Series A. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Venture Financings we Discussed.
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!”
Austin Startup
APRIL 23, 2010
Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. There is a common complaint heard from local entrepreneurs that AV doesn’t invest in early stage companies anymore.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.
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