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

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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Tips for Investing in Startups: 4 Risks & Rewards

The Startup Magazine

Of course this is why a lot of investors choose to hedge their bets and avoid having to make the tricky decisions regarding which startups to back themselves by putting their money into angel investment or venture capital (VC) funds. A degree of diversification can go a long way to protecting you from startup failures.

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Startup Accelerator The Brandery Opens Applications For 2013

YoungUpstarts

The Brandery provides each company with $20,000 in seed money, training sessions with other entrepreneurs and industry experts, and networking with more than 60 mentors who work with startups to provide insights and help grow each idea into an investable, scalable product.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. The post How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution appeared first on Version One Ventures.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

While job recovery is slow, it seems that we've probably ducked that bullet and there won't be a major shift in people's interest in funding the venture capital asset class. It's been said that long term returns are bad, but yet, where else are these institutions going to put the money to get growthy returns?

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth. They used the money to hire a bigger tech team so they could roll out their second product line. The company would have had to raise at least $35 million in venture capital to have funded operations like this.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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