View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), Inbound partners. But in my experience, it rarely fails that press coverage attracts the attention of a potential customer or possible new partner.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

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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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

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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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In In as much as a scheduled interview with an angel investor can be, talking with Boris about what it takes to spark the interest of a venture capital firm was a coincidence. Boris Wertz.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

– NextView blog. – Pitch Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Board Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital. Example Blog Resources: – How & Why to Hire a COO.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. There are a now a handful of funds, that claim to be Pre-Seed funds (K9 included).

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. And do your customer development.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

wealthy, verified investors), the lifting of the ban on general solicitation has allowed investors to publicly advertise that they are raising capital, be it on their blog, Twitter, Facebook, or crowdfunding site such as AngelList. Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook. Want To Learn More?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz. Rumored to be appox.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. I agree that you want to be close geographically to your investments but it is possible to invest across borders with the right partners.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

If you’re an entrepreneur looking for seed capital, but don’t know any sophisticated angel investors, you need to hustle and build relationships in order to get “warm” introductions. When will I get my first dividend check?”, Tip #2: If You Don’t Know Any Sophisticated Angels, Hustle and Build Relationships.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

He blogs at pixelmonkey.org , where this post originally appeared. 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. 2 founders + employee #1), the single employee at the company is a 33% partner in building the company culture and products.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Channel partners come in multiple flavors. Great inches eked out on tech blogs or industry rags. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. Channel partners are no different. Limit your number of sales channel partners.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. No funding and you are trying to get exposure, you have exhausted Twitter, Facebook and a blog. What’s the best way to commercialize a blog?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I read their damn blogs! One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. You had better have proven revenue, explosive growth, and an exit right around the corner if you want anything more that seed capital. Translation?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. 10- Full-time blogging income. To build my blog into a full-time income within 2 years. Thanks to Sid Mohasseb. #6-

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