cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A VC listening to your presentation is thinking, “Are you going to blow my initial investment, or are you going to make me a ton of money? What VC’s Really Want But Don’t Know How to Ask For or Get Mike Maples at Maples Investments observes that the quality of pitches from entrepreneurs get better as you climb the “Hierarchy of Proof.”

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. process in detail.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Liquidity – How?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. process in detail.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes “First they ignore you. of the Series Seed Documents as well as a red-line showing the changes I’ve made from the original set. 

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. seed round today. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. this is a smart investment. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. My philosophy was to get as far as possible with a small seed round. Post-Mortem Title : EventVue Post-Mortem.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

These are usually insignificant amounts once a business is proven but can seriously eat into seed or first round capital. Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency. XML sitemap.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. So that’s that; partnering with another college student introduces a high level of risk but has the advantage of requiring no investment. That’s why you need to be looking for seed-stage investors at the same time as technologists.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All of them share a couple common traits: they launched before taking outside investment, and they were able to do it because they had a set of founders with the skills to build the initial version of the product themselves. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] and Google.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

According to Graham, Google Ventures, a venture-capital firm backed by the tech giant, has systematically been offering to make seed investments in recent Y Combinator graduates, but only on substantially more favorable terms than other investors received. Then GV says theyre interested and wants to invest at a cap of $x/2.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As for the "Hollywood is not a place for startups" - well probably yCombinator is currently only suited for the valley, however a startup that already has a seed investment, and has a reasonably crafted business plan, does not *have* to be in the "meet all the dudes in the coffee shops" scene. method=post. 2 responses. Statistics.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. link] Kameko Oliver I definitely feel the decline in enthusiastic investing as of late. Add to this that 72.7%

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply Are the best Seed deals moving out of the Valley? Reply Startup Weekend Lesson Learned #2 – Customer Development | startupSQUARE's blog , on August 5, 2010 at 4:15 am Said: [.] Blank‘s commandment of “Get Out of Building&# is exactly what Katherine Webster from our team did. We had an application designed to [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

And once you have done the prototype, get seed funding. The tricky part in my own case is getting the first step of the project down to a small enough size so that the initial investment of paying several programmers isnt more than the cost of the whole project. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives.

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