Version One Ventures
APRIL 30, 2013
Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. Here’s the advice I give these teams who are navigating the tough world of hardware financing.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
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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Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. Not my problem.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.
www.businessinsider.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Your Money. Our portfolio speaks for itself.". Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. 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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