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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. If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

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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. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it TheStartup.eu

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it.