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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. Who does this investor know in the customer, partner and executive space they can introduce you to? Seven years later, I exited for $220,000.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. Alexia Tsotsis: Yes, and we are watching that now.