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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

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Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. That’s especially true for angels.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

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Instead, if you’re a seed-stage startup taking that first step in anything (and at the seed stage, you’re going from zero to one in everything), it’d be great to have a place to go for support, inspiration, and practical resources to make the process easier and clearer. – Why raise seed vs jump to Series A?

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How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley?

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Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! First, Leader is an “operating business”, not an “IP holding company. My layman’s reading is that Yahoo!’s

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Also the proportion of email subscribers who’ve bought a Groupon has held up reasonably well. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Founding Date: 2009.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

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As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list.

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