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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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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. These changes fit the needs of the current crisis, but also look forward to a time when consumers will be operating on leaner budgets.

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

To become a member, each accelerator must meet the following strict criteria: Operate a 3-6 month long program. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. We also review their leadership and mentor pool to ensure value. Becoming a member in the GAN is not easy, but neither is operating a quality accelerator program.

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Do the Math

Austin Startup

You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies. You want your valuation to keep marching upward; if you took in some seed money with the promised 10X venture return, you’ll hopefully be able to prove that you are proceeding on that trajectory.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Time and time again, experts in entrepreneurship and business (often with little to no operating experience of their own) offer formulaic advice on what startups must do to succeed. Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. There are many myths about what it takes to start a business.