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Accidental VC: When, Exactly, Should Seed-Stage Startups Look for Office Space?

View from Seed

So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office? Who has a good reputation? The post Accidental VC: When, Exactly, Should Seed-Stage Startups Look for Office Space?

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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. The seed stage startups also save time and money while increasing efficiency because Startup Labs have the knowledge and tools for real success. What is a Startup Lab?

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Once you have established the feasibility of the business concept and created considerable traction for your business, it is now suitable for the seed stage. billion dollars in 2017.

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Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction?

View from Seed

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. Also, great teams are much harder to identify for a bunch of reasons: Teams that seem great on paper or based on reputation may actually not be great.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. In Los Angeles, that network has yet to become as efficient, and the reputational transparency of investors has yet to be cemented.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. Because this is all VCs do and if we intend to work with all of our fellow VCs and entrepreneurs when the rain ends and the sun shines again our reputations matter greatly. On the surface the narratives have been.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The bar for protocols is basically a solid idea with some development and a really reputable team. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.