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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. That is pretty self explanatory.

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Israeli Startups and Marketing – 5 Questions with an Experienced CMO

VC Cafe

Although this has been known for years for B2C companies, it is interesting to see B2B companies realizing the importance of marketing early on, as well. . A marketer will help the founders to create the larger vision and story for the company, craft the desired brand essence and values, and explore various go-to-market approaches.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Have an account? It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says.

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Qwilt Raises $24M to Reduce Data Load of Video by Up to 80%

VC Cafe

Founders Alon Maor from Cisco and Dan Sahar from Crescendo Networks, plan to reduce the overall load of online for landline networks, mobile carriers, content providers, and consumers. Qwilt is an “infrastructure” company, B2B. They are going to remain in semi-stealth mode and are testing their products in the US, Asia, and Europe.

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