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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.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Convertible Securities.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out! Looking ahead to 2017.

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[Interview] Toronto’s Michael Beattie, Founder And CEO Of MBM Consulting

YoungUpstarts

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. You seemed to be doing quite well in your first job with Lakeview Holdings, advancing to president of operations during your tenure. He’s spent over 20 years nurturing them all. The end result?

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Do the Math

Austin Startup

You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies. You also need to look at your operating history to date and get comfortable that your machine is humming along as planned. The numbers all need to be normalized, for example.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue? On the accelerator question, it depends on the accellerator.