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

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

VC Financings: 1. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history!

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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How Do You Know If a Startup Accelerator Is Right For Your Company?

Up and Running

About three months ago, a friend and I started Credential Cabinet , a service to help professionals manage their credentials and continuing education credits. My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

VC Cafe

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. TASE:IBI); Ion Asset Management; Menorah Mivtachim Holdings Ltd., Jan-14-2010. Jan-14-2010. Jan-13-2010.