View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital. Critical Tasks to Complete After Raising Seed Capital [Founder Checklist]. More Reading on Board Meetings and Management: How to Avoid a Cluttered Board Room. Not Everyone Is “Killing It” – How to Communicate Tough Times.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

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.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rule Number One: the best help for start-ups comes from proven leaders who don’t need cash from your seed capital and genuinely want to help ideas they believe in. Regardless, the first warning sign that you’re among the SIC is when they ask for cash upfront to “help” you.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

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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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst. Fast-forward to today and the landscape is different.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 29, 2015

These three steps will help you start fundraising and act as an initial foundation.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2019

Regardless of the scale or the diversity of a business — budding entrepreneurs running from pillar to post in search of seed capital or […]. The fact that business enterprises rely on business loans from time to time is an obvious statement. The post Business Loan?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

First up: The Road to Raising Seed Capital: Crucial Steps to Know. If you have any topics you’d like to see covered, or any questions you want answered, please reach out to us. You can comment below or tweet any of us ( @robgo , @davidbeisel , @leehower , @melodykoh , @nextviewvc ).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Paul Graham, the co-founding of the Y Combinator seed capital firm that invests in startups, offers this piece of advice: “You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

So these startups should look to raise seed capital either before launch or once they can show early revenue for proof points. For consumer companies with transactional business models like marketplaces, brands, or e-commerce companies there usually isn’t a large window of time where you’ll be post-product but pre-revenue.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. My role will depend on how the team is coming together, but most likely, your team has the great majority of equity and I’m a non-employee, non-salaried cofounder. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. This work is unpaid.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. It did not matter whether we were doing it from Ljubljana, Hong Kong, or any place in the world. How and when did your team come together?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. This simply isn’t true and is why they were doomed to fail for not following one of the basic startup tips.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. We’re off to the races! Sounds great! What’s next??

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This program provides the seed capital to do so. In addition, ATI-CEI organized or co-organized over 20 clean energy focused events to help build the Central Texas clean energy community. Those events drew more than 5,000 people. ATI and SECO believe that this success can be replicated in other regions in Texas.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2019

million in seed capital led by Lavrock Ventures with participation from Scout Ventures and Advantage Ventures. As adoption continues to increase, we’ll see computer visions being applied to several industries, including entertainment, gaming, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and financial services.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. But there’s also a great deal of importance placed on another, more common idea: Product/Market Fit.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Raising seed capital. (In We compare and contrast software to hardware in this episode, examining three core aspects of building any company: Building early products (customer dev, prototypes, etc.). Acquiring initial customers (including one “magic” number Ben proposes for a hardware startup to reach). to learn more.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In addition, they must have a solid plan for how they will use the capital that they raise. In general, raising seed capital in a down market requires creative thinking and perseverance. Companies need to have a clear understanding of their business model and how they will achieve profitability in order to attract investors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

A business plan, some seed capital and a can-do attitude could well see you running your own empire before the rest of your mates have even graduated university. You have not yet set about building a career for yourself, you probably have no dependents and your financial obligations will be limited.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), there often isn’t one seminal round to announce.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2015

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In reality the “private capital market” now really consists of three distinct markets: Seed capital (the start), Venture capital (scale or bust) and Growth Capital (private IPOs). That is why you’ve seen so many VC firms that only 20 years ago have $150 million funds raise $ billion growth vehicle.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

And done well, local seed capital can be the catalyst for the new Harvard engineering campus in Allston. It’s that first gentle, commercial push for student ideas that need to get out in the market. It’s that first institutional touch that raises the stakes and turns a project into a company.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Capital: Needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program. -Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Capital: Needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program. -Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. Cash (alone) isn’t king.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook. This guide will walk you through the process of obtaining seed capital for your startup. Want To Learn More? This book includes: An overview of the angel investor process and who they are. The milestones angel investors look for when evaluating your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. Not every accelerator is/could be/would be a member in GAN, nor is it designed that way. To become a member, each accelerator must meet the following strict criteria: Operate a 3-6 month long program. Take no less than 5 and no more than 12 companies at a time.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Paul Graham, another notable investor and co-founder of seed capital firm, Y Combinator, looks for the equivalent of “passion” before deciding whether or not to invest in a founder. You may know “the secret of the market,” a secret that is revealed by spending time on something.

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