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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. After that, the money is used to maintain the company’s expansion.

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How to Up Your Board Meeting Game as a Founder [Deck Templates 2.0]

View from Seed

But more so, these decks are about one thing: upping your board game as a founder. Below, I unpack what I mean, as well as challenge some conventional thinking that gets in the way of a successful board meeting and board relationship… The Real Purpose of Your Board Meeting (and How This Looks in the Seed Stage).

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. VC Cafe: There has been a drastic rise in the number of funds offering seed (or super seed) capital in recent months, especially in the valley.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Stage #4: Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, etc.)

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. A few more stats make that picture look worse. Translation?