Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    Series Seed COI (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0). .  SeriesSeed.com.

Finance 40

Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

Early Stage 231

Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. million in venture financing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence. View More » Apple iOS 4.2

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Money and Finance Lists. Open Source Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Holiday Lists.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Now we can call you a seed-stage VC or a micro VC.

Liquidity Event 308

Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. The Angel/Seed network in Beijing feels fragmented and mostly inexperienced (as are a good number of the China VC’s). innovation in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Robert and I talked about how it's working, the science of pseudoviruses and reporter genes, how his father's example in science and business set him on his path, and how to bridge the gap between science and finance. I think there's also a reflexive skepticism of bringing in concepts frankly from finance.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2012

From Aberman : By taking away from the equation the coupling of a business model from acceptance to accelerator program, Y Combinator is taking away one of the pillars that seed stage investors use to evaluate an entrepreneurial team. The risk of failure must be compensated for appropriately for investors to want to fund the program.

Seed Stage 44

Seed Stage Partner Virginia DC 44

K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

There has been a lot of noise in the Valley lately about how most seed stage deals are now being done as convertible notes. The convertible note was really intended as an instrument for a “bridge financing” – when an equity round was imminent, and likely to occur, but the company needed some money in between.

Pre-Money Valuation 132

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. The Angel/Seed network in Beijing feels fragmented and mostly inexperienced (as are a good number of the China VC’s). innovation in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. But obviously I’m biased.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296