Employee Founder Seattle Seed Money 
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it. It started with a huge amount of hype, nearly 40 employees, and an equally large amount of cash: $41 million. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. Few startups get it quite right.
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