Scalable Startup
AUGUST 9, 2018
High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). Every day it gets a little better and our brand name gets a little more well known. Without funding most tech startups will die.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 20, 2011
His company had raised seed money already. They have some revenue but not much. He wanted a good partner, a fair valuation, and quite honestly, just some effing money! My view is that investors in this situation start to form ideas about what the valuation would be even though you aren’t naming a price.
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www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. A rich companyis one with large revenues.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
We took an advisor named Howard out there. 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. He visited for a while, then walked us outside and said: “This is an idea.
readwrite.com
DECEMBER 3, 2012
It’s Ben Parr of Mashable, whose background includes blogging and … blogging, announcing that he too is now a venture capitalist and is creating a “celebrity fund” that has a super cool name — #DominateFund. The kind of guy who makes up a name like #DominateFund. And who announces a fund before he’s actually raised the money.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.
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