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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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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS?? Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? You must have a strong product management pedigree. Do you want to make America functional again ?

America 60
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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team? If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading.

America 60
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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network. Others are not.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. You lose way more than you win.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital.

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Setting Up Your Accounting System

Feld Thoughts

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. It required a small investment of time and money to get QuickBooks up and running, but it was a manageable distraction from building SayAhh’s core product.