YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. Many founders read the daily headlines on TechCrunch announcing that….

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion dollars of regional GDP.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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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. For many software products, this can happen relatively quickly.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. VC Cafe: There has been a drastic rise in the number of funds offering seed (or super seed) capital in recent months, especially in the valley.

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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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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software. 3) Health Data Applications.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

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.). Raising seed capital. (In Acquiring initial customers (including one “magic” number Ben proposes for a hardware startup to reach).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Fun contest for young entrepreneurs looking for seed capital (w/ cash prize & mentoring) – [link]. Most Creative Ads Series: Hands – [link]. 15 tips to choose a good text type – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. What’s up with the Series A? – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. But nothing simultaneously focuses your team in its mission and gathers the most useful market feedback like actually building software prototypes.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The most common industries include software, medical devices, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The Angel Capital Association found that the median investment per round per angel group was about $277,000. Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook. Want To Learn More?

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

This piqued my interest partly because of my own position as a woman in the still male-dominated tech industry, but also because the company I work for Palo Alto Software is led by a female CEO with very strong ideas about women, motherhood, and family-friendly policies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

muru - D will be hosting a roadshow in six Southeast Asian cities, including Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore, and selected startups will receive S$40,000 in seed capital, space in muru - D Singapore’s central business district office and as well as introductions to world-class mentors, coaches and investors.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company. For most software and internet startups, the hard IP coming in isn’t usually an issued patent, which is obviously different for biotech or other kinds of startups. Ideation/IP.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

One excellent way to do this (with a good bit of help from the experts), is to create a draft business plan using LivePlan from Palo Alto Software. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company. For most software and internet startups, the hard IP coming in is usually isn’t an issued patent, which is obviously different for biotech or other kinds of startups.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Springboard debuted in 2009 as an " accidental incubator " emerging from the company Red Gate Software. The program offers seed capital, office space, and "most importantly - that magical ingredient of 'smart-community' with mentors and other entrepreneurs." Springboard aims to help early stage startups.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

3/ BlackBerry Ripens: As BlackBerry begins a pivot from the once-leading smartphone manufacturer into an enterprise software and services company, Cylance helps bolster BlackBerry’s offering with a legitimate enterprise security player. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Another use of convertible note bridge financing is to make a quick injection of seed capital into a new startup when the investor and entrepreneur already know and trust each other; it’s better than a handshake, but far quicker and easier to complete than a real Series A round.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

.” 2/ Lateral Competition – The number of “seed” funds has also grown during this boon. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive. Samir Kaji from First Republic has been writing on this for years.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Last year, 42% of angel investment was seed and startup capital, reversing a two-year decline in the percentage of angel capital going to early-stage companies. If your business is beyond the seed capital stage, there’s still good news for you. Target your approach.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya has 15 years of experience in biotechnology in energy, healthcare, and software. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Clips from their interview are below. Steven : Nope, hubris. Ajay : (Nods.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya has 15 years of experience in biotechnology in energy, healthcare, and software. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Clips from their interview are below. Steven : Nope, hubris. Ajay : (Nods.)

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. I get approached often by tech startups looking for their first outside funding. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And lastly, a chunk of our CEO Reid Hoffman’s equity was attributed to the fact that he provided the initial ~$750K in seed capital for the company. For most software and internet startups, the hard IP coming in is usually isn’t an issued patent, which is obviously different for biotech or other kinds of startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. More recently it's skewed to software & web. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. And do your customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. We had to raise some seed capital. So really it's just combining this very software driven, very technology driven approach with day-to-day healthcare.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. Large companies also provide an important ‘exit strategy’ for startups.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

We look at AngelList today as a platform for early stage venture-style tech investing but as software eats the world, there are startups enabled by tech but not necessarily startup rocketships, in model or ambition. With seed capital requirements which fall somewhere between a bank small business loan and venture.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital can make an immediate impact on an online schooling company’s bottom line. A $125 million grant made in 2011 to K12 , a company developing educational software for online schooling and testing, led that week to the company’s highest stock price in an entire year. This figure was triple the total investment made in 2007.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

QuickBooks and other accounting software programs will do this for your finances, but you should also implement tools for tracking other key metrics (e.g. While they’ve been hard at work on their product, they’ve also incorporated the company, now named SayAhh (thanks Mac!) as a C-Corp in Delaware.

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