Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. To do this, you will need to invest money in hiring programmers who can build and maintain the app. That seems like a lot of capital. Find a cofounder.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

.” 2/ Lateral Competition – The number of “seed” funds has also grown during this boon. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive. Samir Kaji from First Republic has been writing on this for years.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Below are the milestones that you will need to achieve in order to attract seed investment from Angels: Business Plan.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

You will also need proposals for the cost to develop the minimum viable product (the features that allow the product to be deployed). Founding Team, Key Hires, Advisory Board. Seed investors heavily weigh the importance of the startup team when evaluating an investment opportunity. Intellectual property. Market Validation.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. And they hire very aggressive securities attorneys to represent their interests.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

And in exchange for this $6k-$18k and mentorship, YC asked for 7% equity. TinySeed is similar to YC except it’s remote, runs for a full year, focuses on SaaS, and on “non-unicorns” (companies that don’t aspire to grow at all costs to reach a $1B valuation). YC has always run batches of companies.

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