Gust

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Assuming the company is able to make effective use of the seed money to greatly increase the value of the enterprise, all of that value therefore accrues to the founder, rather than the investor. That is a swing of 15x from the investor’s point of view!

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

You want to vet your metrics with experts in your industry, see if there are any holes in your presentation, and make sure it reads well before you pitch your investors. They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. See Also What to Include in Your Pitch Deck. You’ve prepared a great pitch.

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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). The idea of outsiders entrusting them with a million dollars to spend is intoxicating. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2016

I need to admit to a personal bias right up front: I am not the biggest fan of borrowing seed money. In fact, when I founded Fit Body Boot Camp , I never took a single of cent of seed money, mainly because I wanted to maintain total control of my vision. DO Raise Seed Money Through Sales.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2017

So when you’re brainstorming ideas focus on the future, not the past or the present. There are a few ways to go about this, you can get loans, raise the money yourself, or get investors. Essentially you’ll need seed money, to begin with. That’s exactly what ‘the big idea’ behind a startup has to be; forward thinking.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. After three months they felt they enough preliminary customer and user data to go back and write a PowerPoint presentation that summarized their findings. There must be something really wrong with our business.

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Hippoland

MARCH 27, 2016

It suggests that entrepreneurs should go into an investor meeting with a deck and stand in front of the room and start presenting. Although you do not need a deck to raise seed money, this is why I like to use a deck in my conversations with seed investors. The startup industry should stop using the word “pitch”.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] 10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation] : Venture Capital Cafe. [.] link] 7 Entrepreneurial Tips from YComb’s Startup School Presentations ‹ Justin Klemm – Web Developer and Entrepreneur. [.]

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This week, we present legendary angel investor Ron Conway (commonly referred to as the “ Godfather of Silicon Valley ”) and Marc Andreessen , a brilliant entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. “The So you raise seed money to peel away the first two or three risks.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

If you’re a venture-backed tech company or even an early-stage business fueled by angel or seed money I assume you have a good group of board members or advisors who will give you time to be helpful and they want to be helpful. If I’m in your shoes I’d think about what is most critical to help your business succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2011

His company had raised seed money already. I’ve seen this guy present. But this particular guy who called me for advice I suspect had a different problem. It was the silent killer. The one he probably had no chance of identifying. He was price signaling without knowing it. He does a good job.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We didnt just give canned presentations at trade shows.We Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." One of thebest places to do this was at trade shows.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions. Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.”

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 10, 2013

Fundraising takes an enormous amount of time and energy, from meeting with potential investors to honing your presentation. Raise enough to sustain your company for at least 18 months If you have the option to do so, raise enough capital for a minimum of 18 months.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2010

This competition makes use of some Cisco technology so participants can interact while building and presenting their firms. The winner, who will be announced on June 29, 2010, will receive a minimum of $250,000 seed money. Fourteen finalists will be announced on June 22, 2010.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) link] alex grant I thought that presented a very clear image of how start-ups should be at the beginning.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that? Microsoft Office.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that? Microsoft Office.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. Did you catch that? Microsoft Office.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Wavii uses machine learning to crawl the Web and extract key facts from news stories to present to readers on-the-fly. Source: TechCrunch ]. -

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