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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

View from Seed

It doesn’t need to be extremely granular with all the minutiae of your expenses, but since employees are most often the overwhelming cost-drivers — and there aren’t too many early on in a company’s life — it’s prudent to build the expense lines on an employee by employee basis. The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed. You’re less vulnerable, pay less equity for your funding, and you have some very specific things to talk about.

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Five Questions Every Start-Up Should Ask About Accelerators

Austin Startup

I put that in quotations, because, as I’ll expound, there is a start-up industrial complex that is designed to fleece novice founders from their seed capital with predatory fees, terms, etc. Good accelerators don’t see you as a customer, you’re a partner that they want to help. OK, enough with disclosures.

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

Gust

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Convertible equity? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” Convertible debt? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

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. The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. 2 founders + employee #1), the single employee at the company is a 33% partner in building the company culture and products. Note: I’m not talking about equity.

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