Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 13, 2014
By Paul Jackson, founder of Worthworm. Consider headline making app Yo, which has garnered significant media attention and raised $1 million in funding recently. Looking back to its origins you find it began with just $20,000 in seed money. For example, home sharing service AirBnB was recently valued at around $2.5
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cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Dividing equity between founders » Home. blog comments powered by Disqus.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. 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. Web search existed before Google.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Sarah Lacy.
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