The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds. Chris Dixon: The problem with taking seed money from big VCs. VC signaling in seed rounds. What are the pros of taking seed money from a VC? MORE >>

Plus in a startup you could make much more money. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. If all you need to start a startup is rent money, you should be able to do it anywhere. MORE >>

Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. If you are a company that just raising seed funding, financing risk should be top of mind. Basically you want to take the main risks that exist at the seed stage and eliminate as many as you can. Raise enough seed money. MORE >>

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. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. MORE >>

For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&#  This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in. MORE >>