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

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. So at any given point you are likely operating with a maximum of 9 month’s cash. I want to do this again.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Gust

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. So at any given point you are likely operating with a maximum of 9 month’s cash. He told me, “I have $6,000 in my bank account.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.