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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. This also applies in acquisition conversations.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. Although we envision we initially use our technology for a political purpose, that’s only the test case and that alone is nearly a $20 billion market. A nonprofit?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. As a VC, I’m interested in working with companies with large-scale revenue potential, and that’s the company we envision. Q: Who’s on the team? Sounds great!

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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. If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Single users can test enterprise software using a credit card.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

Every time there is a big technology exit (usually via M&A), I attempt to quickly unpack key takeaways from the transaction. venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B