www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Googles Money. Paul Graham is warning startups against "lowball offers.". What Its Really Like To Go Through Y Combinator, The Most Important Startup School In The World. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. There was Ron Conway (SV Angel) – I think there was always Ron Conway!

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 10, 2013

One of the biggest questions facing any entrepreneur is how much capital to raise for their startup. It’s a delicate question…one that can have a significant impact on the fate of any startup. Keep funding to a minimum until you have found a product-market fit Early rounds are particularly expensive, because company valuation is low.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 23, 2015

So whereas seed rounds five years ago may have been less than a million dollars on a pre-money valuation of three or four million, today''s seed is up and over a million and usually closer to two million, with post money valuations nearing $10 million. in seed money instead of $1.5M

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Startups provide both the luxury and the risk of having very little data on which to base the important early decisions. There are about 32 million left-handers in the US, you have a special product for them, and surely you can get just 5% of that market and have 1.6 The easiest, but the least persuasive, is working from the top down.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Add to this regular angels becoming “super angels” — a much-mocked phrase for when someone goes from investing their own money to investing institutional funds. Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

Design 48

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago.

Design 48

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? 2012 has been good to startups. It’s never been easier to raise seed funding, and there’s warnings that we’re in the midst of a “seed stage bubble.” If the startups succeed, they they have tremendous upside. Thanks, and enjoy!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million).

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