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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

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. This could be a proportion of the company’s equity or investment; in other instances, it could be a portion of its later-stage profits.

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Watch out for the most common scam in startup world?—?Sputnik ATX

Austin Startup

Sputnik ATX Three rules to avoid getting scammed by advisors As an early stage VC, one of the saddest things I observe from meetings with founders is the toxic and pervasive influence of what I call the start-up industrial complex (the SIC). Founders, we love you and want to see you succeed. This is a bad deal for you, if you take it.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? The Seed VC Decision Tree “If the market is attractive and there just isn’t great founder/market fit, we will be open minded as well.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3. The five main stages include the following: 1.

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Are You Waiting For Capital To Launch Your Startup?

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. Unless your business idea is to launch an oil rig, you do not need huge capital investments.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part I

Gust

It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal. A group led by Ted Wang is trying to change that with the innovative Series Seed documents , which I’ll discuss in a future post.) Knowledge is power.

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Five Questions Every Start-Up Should Ask About Accelerators

Austin Startup

Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market. Giving up equity for a desk is a sub-optimal business decision.