ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2019

Regardless of the scale or the diversity of a business — budding entrepreneurs running from pillar to post in search of seed capital or […]. Budding Entrepreneurs Raise Their Chances appeared first on ReadWrite. The post Business Loan?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Billions of dollars are being poured into companies that have yet to clear the value chasm, as entrepreneurs use early traction that isn’t necessarily financially-oriented, but shows a certain level of uptick or success, to raise capital and convince early stage investors that their horse is the one to bet on.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. For an entrepreneur to grow from founder to true CEO, it helps to act as if your business is already at the next stage. How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Each gathering showcases early stage startups in their infancy, not as a capital-raising pitch, but rather as a way to show off their product to peers for both exposure and feedback. Originally, I had invited a dozen or so internet entrepreneurs to a Cambridge bar where we crammed into the back room wearing hand-drawn nametags.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Every day this month of September, we will share a new post that we believe will help entrepreneurs who are starting to fundraise a new round. Throughout the month, you’ll see blog posts that cover tips to help find the right VCs to pitch, how much capital to should raise, how to nail the pitch, as well as other directly relevant topics.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As we come to the end of a particularly noisy and contentious election cycle, a thought echoes over and over in my mind – we need more entrepreneurs in Congress. He helped launch six seed capital funds, three college accelerator programs, the StartFast Venture Accelerator.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. Many entrepreneurs confirm that the drive of innovating and making their idea shine is just too powerful to let go of. How and when did your team come together?

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

I am only interested in talking with people who want to work full-time on this, once we have raised capital (or ideally before). The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. We’re off to the races!

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States. Very little will stop a true entrepreneur from trying to reach his or her goals, including uprooting their entire life and moving it across the ocean to optimize their chances of success.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

I am only interested in talking with people who want to work full-time on this, once we have raised capital (or ideally before). The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Typically serial entrepreneurs are serial because they have successfully exited from Startup One before beginning Startup Two, and they use the first one to fund the second. Unfortunately there is no magic involved here. or (like Instagram or Twitter) explosive customer growth that can eventually be monetized.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. Before you even consider opening your business, you first need to sit down and develop a sound budget plan.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Entrepreneurs from Boston and/or its schools that left to build their companies elsewhere resulted in some of tech’s biggest names, such as Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, and YCombinator. And done well, local seed capital can be the catalyst for the new Harvard engineering campus in Allston. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The NextView podcast Traction explores the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. Raising seed capital. (In If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? Follow Ben @beneinstein and visit bolt.io

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Angels are often former or current entrepreneurs themselves, as well as business professionals and corporate leaders. Angels make a return on their investment when the entrepreneur successfully grows the business and exits it, generally through a sale or merger. Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. Take a small amount of equity (usually ~6%) and overall have terms that are favorable to entrepreneurs. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs. Take no less than 5 and no more than 12 companies at a time.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), there often isn’t one seminal round to announce. The last thing you want to do is raise your hand to attract others into your space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2012

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an Angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that Angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition to being a co-founder of NextView Ventures, Lee was an early member of PayPal and a founding team member at LinkedIn, so he speaks as both a former entrepreneur and a VC. And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Marty Zwilling.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Lower-Than-Market Value.

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Rob Go

MAY 14, 2012

But it’s much easier to identify authentic entrepreneurs going after non-obvious opportunities. Sure, there is more availability of seed capital in the past, although if you watch carefully, you will notice that most of the elite seed funds have slowed down their pace considerably over the last 12 months.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. There is obviously a balance here, as you probably got to where you are because you are a run-through-walls kind of entrepreneur.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

The notion of “founder fit” seems to have its roots in what entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls “product/market fit”the idea that you should be in a good market and be in possession of a product that can satisfy that market. The inextricable link between you and your idea.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? I’ve always wondered why funding begins with fun. Those three letters.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

muru - D will be hosting a roadshow in six Southeast Asian cities, including Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore, and selected startups will receive S$40,000 in seed capital, space in muru - D Singapore’s central business district office and as well as introductions to world-class mentors, coaches and investors.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The most successful serial entrepreneurs in the world may found three or four, perhaps even eight or ten venture-backed startups over the course of their careers. Others have discussed in detail the pros and cons of convertible debt vs. seed equity rounds. Let’s take it from the top: Why convertible notes?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

For many fledgling entrepreneurs, trying to start up their own business can be an admittedly exhausting and arduous task. Not only are they trying to get their inspired endeavor up and running, but they also are struggling to acquire the much-needed capital to actually successfully fund the startup. Crowdfunding.

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