View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even in the early stages of business ownership, reconsider trying to tackle every aspect of starting and running the company yourself. Your finances and brand reputation may soar one year, struggle the next, and then make strides again after that. You should handle everything yourself in the beginning.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2014

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. In retrospect I lost a lot of future gains by cashing out too early but what I gained was more important: peace of mind in removing the only debt I’d ever carried.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Hybrid “is the most far-reaching, in-depth program for early-stage ventures led by Arabs in Israel. Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Yet their commonality lies in their acceptance of early stage investment risks and their passionate drive to help startups succeed. What one piece of advice would you give to people in the early stage space? So I would say to both an entrepreneur and early investor, let your genius free. Rumi Morales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As a private company, Facebook has been not obligated to disclose the exact prices at which it sold shares in its early financing rounds. Most famous among them is Peter Thiel, who we know in 2004 invested $500,000 into Facebook at a valuation of approximately $4.9 How important is it to have one’s investing focus be tech?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their financing decks. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. MYTH : The startup financing process is about one thing — money.

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Finance Cofounder Early Stage Networking 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Venture Financing.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). According to a 2003-2004 U.S. As investors in early-stage technology companies , we are particularly interested in some of the new technologies that have emerged that promote fitness, and we’ll promote their use.

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Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

Financials – yes I know for early stage customers it is at best a guesstimate but give me an idea of how this will grow, what the revenue numbers look like over the next 3 years to give me an idea of how the business scales, and ultimately it helps me understand the true cash needs for the business to get to breakeven (1 slide).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. What's the business model?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones.

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