The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Here in Dallas, Tech Wildcatters had a strong class and is opening up applications for the Spring 2011 class later this month. a) That’s $20,000 per startup for a 15%-20% equity stake. (a) a) That’s $20,000 per startup for a 15%-20% equity stake. Pretty expensive seed capital.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In case it isn’t clear by now, angel investors aren’t in the business of making risky early stage investments in order to earn 6% interest on their money, or even 10%— the upside is all in conversion to equity—so the interest rate isn’t a major point of negotiation. Amount of Financing : Up to $600,000 may be issued.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Dan, I have a startup www.hispanoenamerica.com that we just launched two weeks ago, I have clawed my way to this point and we are at the point where we need some capital to invest in our marketing and execution. Social amplification.

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