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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

The explosion in seed funding, without a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round (Series A), may mean that you can’t get a second round and will be “orphaned” or die. Seeded companies will take longer to raise a next round. As soon as you get seed money, it’s time to start working on the next round.

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

He quit his job to fulfill his orders and imagined starting a great new business from the seed money. The manufactured lock-picks snapped too easily, his backers started to turn on him, and soon he was being contacted by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.