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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. As we prepare for our first funding we are assembling a value chain from partners and vendors to clients. I get approached often by tech startups looking for their first outside funding.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. Initial developer: partner or hired? We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. Translation?

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." We had to raise some seed capital.