ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. One of the most prominent reasons for funding is to scale up your operations, for expansion and achieve economies of scale. For example, you have already started a business and successfully implemented your idea, and it’s running well. Seed stage.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Typical business stage. Typical business model.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Pre-Seed Investments. Investing in a startup at the pre-seed stage is a great way to get in early on to the next big thing. The most important thing to remember is that pre-seed investors are primarily interested in your plan for making money. They also look for a robust business model and product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.    Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice they offer.    But because seed firms operate in an earlier phase, they need to offer different kinds of advice. 

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

If investors express a strong preference changing your business model, product, or team, think twice. If an ask advances the business in an open way, consider it. Wayne Embree is an experienced seed-stage investor with a 30-year track record of fueling startup growth through venture capital.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

Second, we did an investment where we actually decided to own more than 10% because of the nature of the business model. So we changed our process a bit to the three stage approach I outlined earlier. New VCs, especially those with an operating background, can see a company for what they want it to be rather than what it is.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Satya and I take a concentrated approach to seed stage investing – playing a leadership role in financings and committing 50%+ of our time ongoing to working with current investments. Related: 2016 VC Half-Thoughts: Seed Companies Aren’t Being Overfunded, They’re Being Prematurely Funded.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). It is a tool. They use that tool to buy ownership in a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, I wanted to share my response to venture LPs who ask about the effect of “so much money” flowing into the seed space and how we think about its competitive impact upon our fund Homebrew.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

Ian Small: OpenTok is built on the same technical infrastructure as the consumer-facing video conferencing business. Over the last three years we have learned a lot about the technical and operational challenges that come with owning and operating a real-time communications business.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). It is a tool. They use that tool to buy ownership in a company.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. In fact, they generally just get in the way.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round”.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Existing corporations are focused on operational excellence and incremental improvements through process and efficiency. It is, literally, the toolkit for operating what we call the Big to Bigger machine. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? Tell us about your products and services.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Who funds the operating costs? Soren's answer is ambiguous, even though his value proposition and business model are relatively clear and well thought through.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In the seed round you have an early product and by the end you’ve found product/market fit and understand the scale of what you’re building and the levers that you can pull to accelerate growth. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Team, Product, Traction, Business Model and Market.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). The way you get to a V3 statement is to start running the business and charging customers. Although this post is about what I look for, every investor (incl pre-seed investors) looks for this.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). The way you get to a V3 statement is to start running the business and charging customers. Although this post is about what I look for, every investor (incl pre-seed investors) looks for this.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There aren’t a tonne of funds focused on seed-stage funding worldwide, but we can add a new one to the list today. SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. Asia Entrepreneur Insider News sparklabs'

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. Let’s do this! . Who We Are.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? POC is too appealing to the buyer or to the decision maker to talk about the business use case. Can you see POC operating in conjunction with a freemium or free trial PLG motion for a particular company?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. Then above that is business model power—so, how do you make money?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model. Any venture capitalist will tell you, "That's why we take a wide spectrum of that at the seed stage." How would you make the case to a scientist to say, "This is not an invasion of the scientific domain by bogus business concept."

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. ” I think the crux of SQUARE’s business model is obviating the need for merchants to have an acquirer account with a bank. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

The program will be 100% virtual for now, replacing the diffuse mentorship model of most programs with a focus on few companies that get much more hands-on engagement with the NextView partners and our close knit set of advisors. LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, Blue Apron), and being hands-on investors is part of our core.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

2) Business model-defined funds. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . “software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., software” and “deeptech”), and so on.

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