Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. Get some famous angel or seed money.
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techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.
readwrite.com
DECEMBER 3, 2012
It’s Ben Parr of Mashable, whose background includes blogging and … blogging, announcing that he too is now a venture capitalist and is creating a “celebrity fund” that has a super cool name — #DominateFund. The kind of guy who makes up a name like #DominateFund. And who announces a fund before he’s actually raised the money.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. This is calledseed capital.
andrewchen.co
AUGUST 20, 2012
My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M They can easily raise seed money because there’s a lot of willing investors in the ecosystem. Hi, my name is Andrew Chen and Im an entrepreneur and blogger based in Palo Alto, CA. Recent posts.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 18, 2014
In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies.
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