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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. And I have no regrets – watching a friend succeed is the best form of payment.

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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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And if you read the other VC blog advice available, they all essentially recommend a Goldilocks strategy for the dollar amount: not too much, not too little, but instead, just right. Also, it will take at least three months to raise the next round of financing, whatever it is (Series A, seed extension, etc.).

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics.” ” (Lee Hower).

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

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And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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Why Startups Face Increasing Competition In Raising Series As And Bs

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By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. To get some sense of the patterns, I analyzed 917 companies from seed through Series B over the past 14 years, using Crunchbase data. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com. Has it become harder to raise money? is a question I hear all the time.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

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As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Market Value.

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