YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Issues in software IP are nuanced and require a fairly high level of expertise to determine if the technology is patentable at all. In semiconductors and other areas where hard IP really matters, investors highly value patents.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.
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.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 18, 2014
In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. For example, you were one of the first enterprise software freemium models. Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. They laughed at us.
Austin Startup
APRIL 23, 2010
The name gives you a slight window into what they do, but it’s like one click business listening. Stock prices change, people tweet about a company, new job openings are posted, people “fan&# or like Facebook pages, people update their LinkedIn profiles, and Jigsaw information gets updated, just to name a few examples.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. Before the mid-2000s, we mostly had individual angels writing small checks from their personal capital, but over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen hundreds of new institutional seed funds formed. No need to name names.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
100 
Let's personalize your content