BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

The 10 year bull market where every company’s revenue chart is up and to the right is over. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality. Consider this a back to basics approach the way VC used to be in the Arthur Rock days.

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Advisory Board Stealth Cloud Virginia 79

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Series-seed round. Super Angels.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable. In the end, just as always: startups are risky and a majority of them do not survive.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue). They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. Trend to watch : free or lower fee creator tools.

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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.

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Angel Investor San Francisco Startup Social Media 80

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source.

Massachusetts 113

Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Open Source Lists. What is your viral coefficient?

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

“ Job seekers want to know how big you are, how much funding you have, who your investors are, what your revenue picture looks like, what the office itself looks like (pictures!) From “napkin” (seed stage) to profitable startups, this site will give you a good set of options.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Seed Stage 149

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

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. I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. I liked having something physical.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance San Francisco 68

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Now we can call you a seed-stage VC or a micro VC.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. You still have a revenue goal to hit this quarter, something like that. They just want a lot of signups, a lot of visitors, then a lot of revenue.

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Product CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 78

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. A rich companyis one with large revenues.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. The company with all the revenue is Company C. All names redacted.). Valuations. That seemed high to me.

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. I believe that most companies can exist in the experimentation mode for 3-4 years.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296