Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. Today, Voices.com is one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada—not too shabby for a business that began life at the kitchen table. So one night I just sat down and pounded out the business plan.”

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

It allows participants to avoid the many pitfalls — including a lack of investment and a shortage in the mentoring support needed to build strong business plans — that can torpedo great ideas. Source: Pexels. R&D Catalysts.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For instance, many colleges will hold business plan competitions. In return, you may be able to get your hands on some seed money for your college startup. College campuses are rife with financial opportunities. You just need to go out and look for them. .

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Board Effect

JUNE 9, 2021

Thousands of great ideas never come to fruition because business owners and founders of nonprofit organizations aren’t familiar with the startup business grant process. They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. The Minority Business Development Agency.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

Valuation 127

Valuation Startup Seed Money Early Stage 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. It's a huge opportunity to learn early. Pick an idea, any idea.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 264

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. It's a huge opportunity to learn early. Pick an idea, any idea.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Networking 264

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

If plans for expansion and new products go completely awry, you can always be sure that there is at least one pathway for your business to remain viable into the future. The world is so saturated with seed money right now that it’s easy to lose sight of what running a business is all about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. It's a huge opportunity to learn early. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Seed Money Social Network Networking Business Plan 225

Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. It’s a huge opportunity to learn early. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 180

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

At the time, most startups were from the internet’s dot com side of businesses, as the outlook was bullish then. Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment.

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Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2017

Too many startups are blinded by their unwavering commitment to a plan which just doesn’t work. They originally set out to make money selling programming languages. They changed their business plan once they’d got underway. Essentially you’ll need seed money, to begin with. Take Microsoft.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

If plans for expansion and new products go completely awry, you can always be sure that there is at least one pathway for your business to remain viable into the future. The world is so saturated with seed money right now that it’s easy to lose sight of what running a business is all about.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. An old standby for a good reason—your local Small Business Development Center is an excellent resource for information on a variety of business-related topics. See Also Bplans Small Business Loan Finder. Operated by the U.S.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) 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. Emporis This one is a bit of an outlier.

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Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Germany 64

The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people? A Boston Globe article exploring the downside of crowdfunding new businesses noted the example of a man who raised $87,000 on Kickstarter in 2010 for a lock-picking set. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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Social Network Oregon Programming Cofounder 82

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The highway of new ventures is littered with the remnants of businesses that started with tons of seed money but ran out with little to show for it. business environment.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Seattle Social Media 69

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

Valuation 48

Valuation Startup Seed Money Early Stage 48

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Your business plan is ready. So, you’ve been thinking about starting your own firm for the past ten years.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies.

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I have an idea years ago, and now it has became a business plan, I shall share my plan instead of original idea right? [link] Tweets that mention Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog — Topsy.com. [.]

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Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2010

Cisco and leading venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson have announced their second annual global business plan competition for college and university students. The two firms will award $250,000 to the firm that wins this years DFJ and Cisco Global Business Plan Competition.

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Business Plan Global San Jose Venture Capital 34

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. This is calledseed capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Fortunately, many startup myths revolve around three common topics (business plans, money, and unnatural hustle). Many aspiring and even experienced entrepreneurs blindly believe those myths to be true and either take too long to start their business or never feel confident enough to get going.

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Washington Incubator Cofounder Angel Investor 48

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Instead of going to venture capitalists with a business plan and trying to convince them to fund it, you can get a product launched on a few tens of thousands of dollars of seed money from us or your uncle, and approach them with a working company instead of a plan for one.

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Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Small Business Force

AUGUST 13, 2009

But you say, I need to raise cash so that I can execute my business plan and grow my business. True, but why not just have a total focus on generating cash any way you can to get the business off the ground and keep it running? So, let's say you're just starting out.

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Vesting Entrepreneur Institutional Investors Seed Money 28

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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