Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Your Money. Grahams startups go through a months-long process of coaching to help them build products and raise money. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. Clusterstock. Broker Center.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

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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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While not a bad idea, this is rarely successful because many seed funded startups have way too many investors who are more apt to write off the investment then to bridge more seed money. Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don't caught in "No Man's Land."

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While not a bad idea, this is rarely successful because many seed funded startups have way too many investors who are more apt to write off the investment then to bridge more seed money. Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don't caught in "No Man's Land."

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Should startups keep their ideas secret? link] Mark Essel.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. Knowing What the Seed Funding Policy of your VC is. In these cases we proactively offer to lead their next round of financing. So we’re bound to frame the issue in slightly different terms.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money. Raising money, scaling the team. But it's not a binary decision.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

That wasn't a bubble bursting issue--that was a poor financing strategy issue of people getting caught with their pants down, hands in the cookie jar, and all the metaphors you can think of at once. In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive.

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