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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing).

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

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. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. And they hire very aggressive securities attorneys to represent their interests.

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TinySeed Applications Open January 18th

Software By Rob

And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! We are happy to speak with you at any revenue level, but somewhere in the $150k-range is when founders may start to look for seed capital. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help.

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The New Reality of Entrepreneurship | WSJ.com

Campus Entrepreneurship

From the WSJ (sub req); In the early months of the economic recovery, start-ups of job-creating companies have failed to keep pace with closings, and even those concerns that do get launched are hiring less than in the past. Lack of seed capital (home equity lines of credit, friends/family) is a major problem. (Is