YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

They are investors who provide you with all the resources you need, including seed money, physical space for your startup, advice, and connection with other investors in their network. Startups are like a baby that you need to nurture, while incubators and accelerators are there to help you grow your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

To get the mentors and the seed money, the start-up teams must clearly demonstrate what I call Moxie, the strength of character to play the game to its conclusion. He blogs at www.startwithmoxie.com. The others go home, empty-handed, but typically energized, rather than defeated. This process is not for the faint of heart.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2016

I need to admit to a personal bias right up front: I am not the biggest fan of borrowing seed money. In fact, when I founded Fit Body Boot Camp , I never took a single of cent of seed money, mainly because I wanted to maintain total control of my vision. DO Raise Seed Money Through Sales.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. My posterous blog. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. See Also 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. The post Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch appeared first on Bplans Blog. “They were invited separately, and each of the three sat for the pitch and commented on it.

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Board Effect

JUNE 28, 2022

Start-up Grants or Seed Money Grants — Start-up grants are hard to come by, but they exist. While government grants are a good start, you might have better luck looking elsewhere for a grant. 10 Types of Nonprofit Grants. Here are 10 different types of grants your board can apply .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. He has published extensively on branding, and often shares his thoughts on the Logogarden.com blog. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it. You can keep overhead low.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. What gives?

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

How many times did the tech blogs go out of their way to insist that all of this over-investing and overpaying made perfect sense? But if thats the case, doesnt it mean that we were in fact in a bubble back when all those blogs were saying there was no bubble? Because blogs are venture-funded startups. Share on LinkedIn.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

I am currently on blog vacation and not updating the site much right now. My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M They can easily raise seed money because there’s a lot of willing investors in the ecosystem. @andrewchen. Gone fishin.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We want to be in business with the best entrepreneurs going after the biggest markets and we do not care whether they need seed money, venture money or growth money. When you are raising seed money, you need an investor who can help you grow. As a matter of core philosophy, we invest in companies not stages.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

As an uncreative VC, I figure I’d find a way to outsource idea generation for my blog. What are some common-sense tips for startups as they seek to avoid the “ Trough of Sorrow ” that Brian Balfour has blogged about? Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

My partner Dharmesh Raithatha wrote the post below on the Forward Partners blog earlier this week. With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. —————————-. USER RESEARCH.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

This post originally appeared on the Flippa blog. If you’re reading this, you’re probably considering selling your app to someone else, hopefully for large sums of money. You can then use the $1,200 as seed money to work on a new idea. It’s simply an asset, which you are exchanging for money. Congratulations!

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Instead, what I often see is that the minute seed money is in the bank, founders try to staff up very quickly. Investors do care about absolute levels of traction, but they care almost as much about the steepness of the curve and the shape of that traction.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The foursquare team was consumed this week with SXSW preparations, but we were fortunate to have as class guests Charlie O'Donnell, who wrote the original blog post on foursquare that got many in the community excited about the company, and Andrew Parker, who was an associate at Union Square Ventures at the time of their Series A investment. .

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 24, 2013

20 Use the Allowance as Seed Money. In teaching kids to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, you can start by helping them to think of their allowance as seed money. These days, we receive a significant portion of our daily information by blog. All businesses need startup capital. 21 Become an Online Personality.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This is what I’ve alluded to here.).

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This is what I’ve alluded to here.).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Until now the focus of this online-blogged-book on small business innovation has been a guerilla innovation mindset. Money is a big topic and I’ll be doing more on it in the next couple chapters, but suffice to say, you need seed money to crank things up. Hollywood Innovator, Lucille Ball. Birthing the Baby.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? 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.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2012

You don't need a million dollar advertising budget, but you should have some seed money to get your business and its marketing campaign off the ground. Even if dominating your local market is your initial goal, make sure that you're ultimately heading for something greater or you might become a big fish in an inadequately small pond.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 14, 2010

The recent debate over Twitter's traffic volume (as played out in TechCrunch and betaworks' John Borthwick's blog, "Charting the Real-Time Web" ), suggests that the real-time Web is continuing to explode, even though the standard tracking measurements are unable to accurately capture the data. We'll see how it plays out.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. Alex writes a blog about giving things up. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days. A BD person at an aqui-hire will write a book on the art of the deal.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Source Microsoft Blog ]. - Why I stopped blogging and hopefully won’t ever again. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

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