Conversion Early Stage Lean Seed Money 
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. No need to name names.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 16, 2018
Actually, I tend to lean more on the relationship building side, for a couple of reasons. First, in the early stages, there's a lot more information that can be gleaned about you than we can know for sure about the success of your company. Well, it all depends, right? How you think, what your plans are, etc.
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Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Convertible notes/SAFEs are usually executed around times of maximal uncertainty for a company; the very early stages. However, there are circumstances in which founders know there are potential serious milestones on the short-term horizon that would dramatically influence valuation, but they need to close their seed money now.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
But wherever you stand on that, there’s one very real consequence of this explosion in seed funding: There has not been a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round, the so-called Series A. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages.
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. if you have some thoughts on this you could add to the conversation and provide some advice. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. it is always product first.
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