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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

It’s that when things go south, seed funds will have a hard time defending themselves against larger funds that might do a recap or put in a pay-to-play. When we have been converted to common or very deeply diluted from a pay-to-play, the companies have either failed anyway or were not blockbuster outcomes.

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Disrupting Google

Start Up Blog

Think about it – if we shift our search habits to ask questions and getting an actual answer, rather than a page of links and options – the pay per click model could die alongside it. Bing might just become the world’s first Premium Search engine – a pay to play for a different kind of search.

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9 No-Nonsense Social Media Tips Your Business Can’t Ignore

YoungUpstarts

Accept that you will probably need to “pay to play” if you want to expand your reach significantly. This will mean setting the expectation with your team members that they must make answering questions from your social media manager a high priority.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Do you have a payment gateway?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Do you have a payment gateway?

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5 Ways To Sample The Joy Of An Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

In all cases, it pays to play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and skills you already know. The alternative and more predictable corporate role may suddenly seem more satisfying and financially stable to you and your family. Adopt the Silicon Valley entrepreneur family model.

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Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders

Steve Blank

For existing investors, sometimes it was a “pay-to-play” i.e. if you don’t participate in the new financing you lose. They offered desperate founders more cash but insisted on new terms, rewriting all the old stock agreements that previous investors and employees had.

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