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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. Yes, history is repeating itself!).

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Build something then demo it to people. The great thing is, in 2007, we visited 75+ resorts for a demo tour, and have many leads I can follow up on. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. We had to raise some seed capital. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt. In seven days, we launched the application. So, people default.