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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

pexels You need to have enough resources by having a seed-stage investor who will financially support your company in the long run. I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. How does the funding for the seed stage work?

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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.” So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.”

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Minimum Viable Team

This is going to be BIG.

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.”

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

View from Seed

4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. Rather, the conclusion is that it’s best to explicitly define what the fundraising milestone strategy is during the seed stage. They are: 1.

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What Is a Venture Capital Firm?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Pre-Seed Investments. Investing in a startup at the pre-seed stage is a great way to get in early on to the next big thing. This is done by evaluating the product’s potential market, the sales process, and the company’s team. Seed funding is usually used to support product development, sales, and marketing.

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Pre-seed investments work best when there’s a clear plan for short term value creation

The Equity Kicker

Breaking that down a little further, what we’ve learned over the three and a half years we’ve been operating is that our pre-seed investments work best when the ‘great idea’ includes a clear plan for value progression in the first six months.