Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. What do you do when you have finally raised seed funds? It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery. Should any money go to PR at all?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

If it's not your plan to get venture capital down the road, then you'll probably stop in Stage 2-receiving enough funding to boost your marketing, sales, and infrastructure to grow organically from there to the point where you are satisfied or ready to sell. Each round may raise between $5 million and $20 million or more.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The most important belt that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act loosens concerns the amount of capital a new company may raise through the sale of securities in a 12-month period.

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IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas 120

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Just taking any outside capital comes with a lot of responsibilities, including having a fiduciary responsibility to other parties involved in the business. Even if it’s assumed that the startup will raise outside (venture) capital, raising sooner often creates an accelerated (and riskier) timeframe.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? • Business model : A business model answers the basic questions about your entire business: Who are the customers?

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 333

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? • Business model : A business model answers the basic questions about your entire business: Who are the customers?

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 225

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A new entrepreneurial venture requires a great deal of assistance in terms of headhunting, business coaching, venture capital etc. A venture should be run and managed only by people who have genuinely bought into and share the entrepreneurial vision. Business support network. and put them to good use.

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Vietnam Venture Capital Seed Capital Exit Strategy 171

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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