The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
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.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world?
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This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
We're not in a nuclear winter--and if anyone tells you that they're having trouble raising money, it's probably due to the following: Their business isn't killing it, so they haven't gotten to that "next level" you need to get to move up to Series A funding.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. but globally.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
I'm sure an entrepreneur would like to think that they came a lot closer than they did, but I think the reality is that if you're already into down rounds within the first year of your companies existance, your future is probably pretty bleak and the VCs seed money is probably best spent elsewhere.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
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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