View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
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?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
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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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
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. and we are already building a strong network of partners and customers. How and when did your team come together?
View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
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.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 6, 2010
This program provides the seed capital to do so. Funding from this program is intended primarily to cover personnel and some travel costs, in particular hiring a leader of the clean energy incubator. ATI and SECO encourage applicants to partner with their local utilities and/or local energy industry as part of this program.
View from Seed
MAY 14, 2019
A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. You needed to find the most scrappy and cost efficient way to get a product out, and in the process learned tons about the market and customer you are trying to serve.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 9, 2018
Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. As we prepare for our first funding we are assembling a value chain from partners and vendors to clients. I get approached often by tech startups looking for their first outside funding.
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