Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. Startups are the adventure of a lifetime. But make sure it fits who you are. Thanks Steve!
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
You’ll hear this story in the video. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. Total raised: $30mm.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it. Having a plan is important.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Your technology is really cool and working great but no one knows you exist. The business guys only started coming in after the core technology had been built out.
Campus Entrepreneurship
JUNE 3, 2010
This competition makes use of some Cisco technology so participants can interact while building and presenting their firms. The competition is designed to elicit new technology-oriented ideas from aspiring college and university student entrepreneurs around the world. Fourteen finalists will be announced on June 22, 2010.
www.businessinsider.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
227 
Let's personalize your content