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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Nobody wants to leave their loved ones in a cold, impersonal dog kennel not to mention the costs of doing so. Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. “Oh s**t.” What to do?

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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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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

It is an independent supplier of the Smart B/L™ solution, which provides an extremely fast, safe, reliable, and cost-effective way to process Bills of Lading anywhere in the world. among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry. How and when did your team come together?

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How a Seed VC Approaches Pre-Product Startups

View from Seed

My partner David has also written about this a bunch. This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. I’ll dig into this a bit further… Founder/Market Fit.

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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? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Market Value.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum.