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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. After that, the money is used to maintain the company’s expansion.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Stage #4: Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, etc.)

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?”

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?”

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

techcrunch.com

Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model. Might be kinda large market., It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Take that venture capital (say $6 mil?) … and give $200,000 to 30 fresh start ups instead. dasein Yeah, I agree.