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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. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage. What is the Evaluation of the Funding?

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How to Up Your Board Meeting Game as a Founder [Deck Templates 2.0]

View from Seed

Just to discuss a few benefits more in-depth… First and foremost, getting into a regular cadence readies the company to think and operate more professionally for later rounds of financing. For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.)

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How to calculate the equity split between co-founders in a startup

The Next Web

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. 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. Is this person taking a salary or not?

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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry. When you won an IRU World Congress Startup competition award, Boris Blanche, Managing Director of IRU, called out CargoX for its “viability and invention,” in other words, you maintain a realistic, yet disruptive, model.

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

David Teten

You must have a strong product management pedigree. For more on what I’m seeking, see The 8 characteristics of the perfect startup team and Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public. See Ready to Join a New Management Team? However, we’ll consider first-time CEOs. This work is unpaid.

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

David Teten

You must have a strong product management pedigree. For more on what I’m seeking, see The 8 characteristics of the perfect startup team ; Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public ; New Report Identifies Key Characteristics Of Successful Startup Entrepreneurs. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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Singapore’s ClearBridge BioMedics Raises $9 Million Series B

YoungUpstarts

Cancer research and treatment may just have gotten a shot up the arm – Singapore-based Clearbridge BioMedics has just announced that it successfully closed a S$9 million Series B financing round led by Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd, the wholly-owned VC arm of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings.

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