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

The Startup Magazine

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? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? This is the minimum feature set for founders. Other Roles in a Startup Generic advice given to entrepreneurs assumes that everyone is going to be the founder/co-founder. Founders know they want to start something.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. Your strategy is to create growth with little or no money.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You are building awareness around your product and, presumably, persuading others of its value. Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9%

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

Steve Blank

He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. I thought his technology was was potentially a killer app. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. Here’s why.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

crowdSPRING Blog

Many successful products and services share the origin story of “I needed something like this, so I built it.”. A challenge that some entrepreneurs don’t consider is that innovative, never-before-seen products and services often stand alone. This means that products in this category need to launch with a robust marketing plan.