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

The Startup Magazine

The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. Ask for short conference calls. Have topics.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part One)

OnlyOnce

Finally, back-end support and process—an accounting team that gets the invoices out, an HR team that helps make strategic hires—makes the folks engaged in product development more productive. A good example of this is our recent Domain Assurance product, our first product to address phishing and spoofing.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

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Multiple passes at the target

This is going to be BIG.

We have a good sense of what later stage VCs are going to look for and can help think about how much you need to raise to get additional interest down the line. Sometimes, we even have good product feedback. Why not ask people who may have entrepreneurial, operational, sales, marketing, etc. backgrounds at startups?

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Common Intellectual Property mistakes made by startups

NZ Entrepreneur

As soon as you have a business or product idea and you’ve spent some time planning what this may look like in reality, start looking into intellectual property protection. You may not think this information is important if your intent is to exit the startup before manufacturing or sales begin.