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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. No, but a publication that gets into the nitty gritty of mobile development will want those details and then some. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage. That is objectively crazy.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] leehower.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round.

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

There’s lot of anecdotal evidence for this: Seed stage investors (including NextView and many of our peers) are seeing more startups progress from seed to Series A stage in 6-9 months rather than 12-18. Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. It fascinated me that you could take this technology that needed this advanced machine and it's clean advanced laboratory and put it on this small mobile device.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. What is your viral coefficient? Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Today in Mobile.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.