Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Network to build investor relationships before you ask for money. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If all else fails and your business model goes belly up, you still have your studies to rely on for future prospects. In return, you may be able to get your hands on some seed money for your college startup. Alternatively, there are organizations for student entrepreneurs for networking and startup cash injections.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. A former colleague of mine from SAP introduced me to this business. If you don't have a network, get started building one.

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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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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Local Community Bank: Big banks rarely lend to small businesses, but small community banks do, usually with collateral and personal guarantees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

They’re looking for guidance on building the company, the ability to tap into a VC’s network, and help with potential business opportunities. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. That is the nature of this business - starting a company is incredibly hard.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. Anti Matter lol.

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