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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. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation. Not sure why.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

This has been an important year for us as a firm, as well as the market in general. There was a significant pull-back of the public markets in Q1. In other words, any correction in public valuations happened quickly and has now stabilized. But what kind of impact has this had on the private markets? Quantum Computing.

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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

How can either of you confidently give a valuation of a business that doesn’t make money? They will want to know that there is a product-market fit and that the product is experiencing actual growth. The world is so saturated with seed money right now that it’s easy to lose sight of what running a business is all about.

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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

How can either of you confidently give a valuation of a business that doesn’t make money? They will want to know that there is a product-market fit and that the product is experiencing actual growth. The world is so saturated with seed money right now that it’s easy to lose sight of what running a business is all about.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

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. Often seed investors will step off the board when A or B round investors get involved and this is important because otherwise entrepreneurs can end up with unwieldy VC-heavy boards.