Genuine VC
JANUARY 23, 2012
And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach.
Hippoland
JULY 24, 2016
Valuation is a nebulous topic amongst early stage startups, so I thought I’d really spell it out in detail. In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Some verticals will be difficult to get revenue traction in. 2008-2009 was a terrible time to raise money.
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Agile VC
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 3, 2012
The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 20 hardware engineers getting together to form a Syndicate.
www.informationarbitrage.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.
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