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Exploring the Best Free Crowdfunding Sites Online

The Startup Magazine

Lastly, note that using free crowdfunding sites provides an excellent cost-effective solution compared to seed capital or personal loans with high-interest rates. The social proof and validation received from having numerous tangible backers can also be priceless. Next, you’ll delve into some notable crowdfunding platforms.

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When Is the Right Time to Raise Outside Seed Capital?

View from Seed

The following is a real (but anonymized) email to us at NextView where a founder debates the timing of his seed raise: I met with someone today who said I should push to close a seed round before I launch the product. Do you have the experience, reputation, and network that make it relatively easy to raise seed capital?

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

The company spends the $1m building and launching their first product. The product gets a lot better. In this case, we misread the respect – or lack thereof – that a co-investor and an entrepreneur would have for the other seed investors and the seed capital that helped them get a product built and into customer hands.