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

The Startup Magazine

These investments are a tremendous help to your startup because they will serve as a stepping stone to reach your target eventually. I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? Hence they will miss the finish line.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Think about how you can prove your business model with an MVP. He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups. What are they really looking for?

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No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models

Steve Blank

I think my startup is going to fail even before I get funded.” He said, “After we graduated we took our great idea, holed up in my apartment and spent months researching and writing a business plan. There must be something really wrong with our business. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money.

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Do the Math

Austin Startup

Startups provide both the luxury and the risk of having very little data on which to base the important early decisions. A business model must be created out of whole cloth, and generally it’s a compilation of assumptions piled on top of other assumptions. This is a point where your really must be honest with yourself.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

What are some common-sense tips for startups as they seek to avoid the “ Trough of Sorrow ” that Brian Balfour has blogged about? There really aren’t many easy answers – honestly, most startups face some sort of trough of sorrow. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue?