Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the things I like least about seed stage venture is the compressed amount of time to get to know a new founder during fundraising. One question which matters to me is the “ why ” of your startups, especially as it relates to your longevity as a founder. ” Whoa, 10 years?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 29, 2017

Would you be willing to share your application to [incubator/accelerator] with us so that we can use it as a way to collaboratively discuss what you’ve learned since then?” ” For many accelerators and incubators, demo days kick off a fundraising process for a full round or additional capital based on inbound demand.

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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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Early-stage startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Super Angels.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

But one day, at night, I decided to just Google NYC incubators. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. Other founders say having a baby beats it, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I like to be able to take public transportation and have meetings with founders, sometimes spontaneously. I may find myself having an IM conversation with a founder, and think it would be best to just grab coffee and scribble on a whiteboard. I recently attended a Demo Day for a well-known incubator.

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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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Super Angels.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators and accelerators have to a large extent replaced the funding from friends and family. The incubators and accelerators are investing $15-$50K in a large number of early stage teams (the current YC class has 60+ teams !). First Round was the first uVC fund.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

The investing strategy for K9 stands in stark contrast to most “early-stage” (incubators, accelerators, pre-seed and seed stage) investing. The small and concentrated portfolio means that K9’s interests are always well aligned with the interests of founders who choose to work with us.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

” The theory is that the number of seed stage Series A deals led by venture capital firms is decreasing, meaning that it will be difficult for startups to raise a new round of financing. ” However, I believe that YC realizes that having debt outstanding that may need to be repaid is not a good situation for founders.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

We are a bit like an accelerator programme, a bit like an incubator and a bit like a straight early stage fund, yet we are also different to all of these things in crucial ways. We invest in 1-2 companies per quarter that join us for a year long programme, and we invest in late-seed stage companies too.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. As we’ve said before, as seed-stage investors, we think broadly about these opportunities and the interconnectedness of many of them.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage. The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So, I took it upon myself as a challenge to put together the definitive “ Pre-Seed FAQ.” I’ll start with all the questions I can think of, from many different perspectives: founders, LPs, the press, and even other VCs. The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

. ” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018. Looking back on this, in a way, it’s silly; yet, for seed-stage investors and the founders we back, getting companies from seed to Series A is a really important milestone, a milestone I’ve likened to getting into the graduate school of one’s choice.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Homebrew launched two years ago, Satya and I knew that smart hardware was going to be important to our Bottom Up Economy thesis but also that neither of us yet had meaningful experience working alongside the best hardware entrepreneurs at the seed stage where we invest. Then Make Investments. Write Lead Checks 2014-15.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. You can't tell what the company does.

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Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Since that first fund super angels have sprouted wings, accelerators have been, um, accelerating company formation and incubators have stopped being a 4 letter word. We’ve been deeply fortunate to have been able to catch the seed stage wave early and work with some of the most dynamic and thoughtful founders in our industry.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

When we started Mobius, we were four founders and two EAs. At one point we were a 70 person organization, with 10 partners, 20 associates, two business development people, three recruiters, a marketing person, two incubators (anyone remember Hotbank?), ” Remember that it’s a different approach.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

As with other markets, one of the big gaps in LA is a shortage of very high quality, sophisticated seed stage capital coupled with operating expertise that can really help entrepreneurs at the ground floor. It’s probably my favorite new VC/Incubator name in a long time (way better than NextView).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Note: The articles incorrectly refer to K9 as a ‘tech incubator.’ K9 is NOT an incubator. K9 invests at the Pre-Seed stage when it’s generally just the founders in the company. The Kennel has also been featured in several design blogs/sites: dezeen magazine. OfficeLovin’.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2017

VC evaluation of seed-stage startups can seem arbitrary or imitative at times. Any seed stage company’s strategy is a constant work-in-progress. Founders’ employ intuition and rapid reaction to their market(s) to pivot and evolve their model. The process is a highly collaborative one within our team at NextView.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The 2013 Joah didn’t realize he was about to run into the buzzsaw that was being black while fundraising in 2014 and 2015, two of the best years for a seed-stage startup to raise funds in Silicon Valley. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The second and third rounds of funding take additional shares of equity and dilute existing investors and founders. Founders usually end up with 10% to 20%, all the other employees end up with about 15%, and the VCs end up with about 60% to 75%. Founders and VPs usually have about 10% and employees have about 15%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. 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. Trending Stories. 13 Halloween-Themed Facebook Timeline Designs [PICS]. November 1, 2011 by Joshua Baer.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Israeli super angel fund is dedicated to invest exclusively in seed-stage startups or apps in Internet, telecommunications and software. The fund was started through a merger between Startup Factory, Yatir Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center, the shared office complex and company incubator in Silicon Valley.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 28, 2011

Even though First Round is a small, seed stage fund and we don't have the kind of approach that forces more money on an entrepreneur than they need, the idea of calling something too small made me feel uncomfortably close to that mindset. This summer, in NYC alone, over 50 companies will be participating in various incubator programs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The founders have started companies before. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK? HOW DOES GREYLOCK EVALUATE COMPANIES AT THE SEED-STAGE? You can listen to the podcast here.

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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.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Company: Founder Institute. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Tags: the funded , founder-institute. Crunchbase.

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