Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#. ATI’s Wireless and IT incubators have supported an incredible slate of companies in the recent past – Calxeda , GameSalad , Spredfast , qcue and numerous others.

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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. Series-seed round. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. I recently attended a Demo Day for a well-known incubator. If your seed-stage company fits the criteria above, please contact me. Notice that this is a very subjective statement.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I remember enjoying reading his book “ Delivering Happiness ,” the story behind how he led Zappos and drove it to a billion dollars in revenue before Amazon bought it. But one day, at night, I decided to just Google NYC incubators. I didn’t say much after that, but I thought of what that encounter meant, or could mean.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. ii.actual REVENUE? You’re in dialogue with the marketplace. Listen to what it tells you.

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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. Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue).

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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.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. 4 ] Seed Funding Firms Seed firms are like angels in that they invest relatively smallamounts at early stages, but like VCs in that theyre companiesthat do it as a business, rather than individuals making occasionalinvestments on the side. What is an incubator?

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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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share.

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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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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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Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Understanding the market and establishing product/market fit is a critical seed-stage milestone. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

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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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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. Technology is changing the way we do business; crowd sourcing and social networks have become a default security system. Come and meet some of those on the front line.

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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 Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

from David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA As discussed in my recent post about a TiE event on Chicago start ups, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. Web startups, which I presume is the kind of main interest amongst your readers, can be started completely without VC's.

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