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

K9 Ventures

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Nonprofits And For-profits

ReadWriteStart

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. You can't tell what the company does.

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Post-Americanism

aweissman.com

May 4, 2008. At betaworks were trying to create a different seed stage business model (John wrote about this a little more here ), at least a bit, and though we might be "obscure even among Web insiders," by nature of being located here in New York we tend (and are right now designed) to have more activities here. aweissman.com.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. You’re asking someone to take a chance that with the code they deliver you can get funding or gain some revenue traction. That’s why you need to be looking for seed-stage investors at the same time as technologists.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. Compared to Salesforce, the industry leader, the stats were not too dissimilar over the same period: its market cap grew by $19B and its revenue increased by $3.3B. From a revenue standpoint, 58 companies have already crossed the $5M per year mark and 29 are $15M+.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. Source VentureBeat ]. - November 29, 2012.