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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Founders are building small, focused teams based on people they worked with previously and referrals from their networks. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days.

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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Find a partner and core team early to supplement your expertise.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Typically, one that is orthogonal to the Founders’ network that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise.

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A Small Change Seed Funds Can Make To Their Websites To Help Founders (and Themselves)

Hunter Walker

In our case customers = founders, and supporting the ones we’ve backed is our firm’s #1 priority. “Oh we love Homebrew but looked at your portfolio page and didn’t see any XYZ companies, so didn’t think you’d be interested” was something we heard from a few founders we wished would have pinged us. .

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Intential, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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