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When Is the Right Time to Raise Outside Seed Capital?

View from Seed

A year from now, will you have gone “faster” and accomplished more because of outside capital accelerating the business, which justifies your time spent fundraising today? Do you have the experience, reputation, and network that make it relatively easy to raise seed capital? appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest.

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

In some cases this turned into nothing, but in a few cases it had magnificent outcomes for me and my gang, along with the entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur and the VC may not care at all, and that’s fine with us, but we’ll remember the behavior for a long time. In a single turn game, this might be rational behavior.