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. The challenge here is that founders – having an easy time raising their seed rounds and maybe Series A – can be lulled into thinking that each subsequent round will be just as easy.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. Without funding most tech startups will die. high growth.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Since joining Neuhaus Partners in late 2006, I've done 6 deals directly. apprupt The apprupt founders initially launched and received funding from us for Jupidi. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me. This was before my time with Neuhaus Partners.

Software Review 64

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. But, for startup founders looking to create a company built to last, is Kickstarter really the way to go? He quit his job to fulfill his orders and imagined starting a great new business from the seed money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. asked the founder who had spent the time crafting the perfect plan. “On Here’s why.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 16, 2018

On the other hand, some founders *literally* aren't fundraising. You think you're getting this big fat check compared to the seed money you raised, but they're actually doing something more like dipping their toes in the water. A lot of founders worry about information sharing. It's less signal than you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. Few startups get it quite right.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This week, we present legendary angel investor Ron Conway (commonly referred to as the “ Godfather of Silicon Valley ”) and Marc Andreessen , a brilliant entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. So you raise seed money to peel away the first two or three risks.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). You raised angel money.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No raising money. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?).

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. We fine tuned the idea throughout, even got letters of intent and partner contracts before we had a powerpoint. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We want to be in business with the best entrepreneurs going after the biggest markets and we do not care whether they need seed money, venture money or growth money. Second, one of the founding principles of the firm is to have general partners who are skilled in helping companies at all three stages of development.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Sarah Lacy.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

This equates to 3-4 new investments per year per partner, which is the pace at which we think we can be very active with companies during their first few years of life. We’ve invested in some SaaS companies that acquire early customers through a combination of inbound marketing, inside sales, and channe partners.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

So I was excited to partner with the good folks at Intelligent.ly What can founders do in advance to make the trough as shallow as possible? . Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

Here were some of the takeaways I had from the class discussion framed around three major questions I posed to the students: 1) Why did foursquare succeed as compared to the same founder (Dennis) in a similar venture (Dodgeball) in a different era and as compared to other teams pursuing LBS services in the same era? .

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. Surpassing expectations was my job--and even then, I was still trying to be good enough for them to add on a *fifth* east coast partner. Growth hacking?

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