mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

Often, they syndicate their investments with other venture capitalists, spreading the risk and giving the entrepreneurs multiple contacts and sources of advice. Venture capitalists usually help startups in their early stages, called seed funding. VCs can also introduce you to potential customers and partners.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2014

Series A Dynamics: This is a middle-of-the-road outcome in terms of optimizing your next round of financing. This tends to be more common on the East Coast where there is more of a history of firms buddying up with the intention of doing the next couple rounds of financing together. Lots of credibility, even at a very early stage.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. Explore content syndication opportunities to expand the reach of your blog posts. It’s easy to build a brand online. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. And if you don’t have US business activity, then get a beta customer for initial footprint. R&D in your home country, HQ in US with the CEO moving over). If not, raise locally. Do the corporate flip.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. VCs also love businesses with a high degree of customer referral activity.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

While the aforementioned example may not fit every startup, regardless, you need to have an actionable, scalable business model with measurable metrics (downloads, customers, etc.) In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Google Lists. Health and Environment Related Lists.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Often you assume your customer is the same as you — sees the problem the same way, wants to solve it your way, and wants to pay for it. That means admitting the strengths of the competition — who has great customer service, who has more features, who already owns their niche unquestionably? But this isn’t the case.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. The feedback is “come back when you’ve made more progress with customers.” The company spends the $1m building and launching their first product.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Customize Your Pitches. When you want a particular person to cover your story, customize your pitch to be relevant to his coverage area and audience. Instead, stick with custom emails. Money and Finance Lists.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Almost every other industry collectively does what it promises; the restaurant industry does give all its customers food.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Home to over 80 private- and public-sector tenant customers who directly employ about 12,000 people on the campus, activity from Port SA contributes over $5 billion annually to the regional economy. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Are you able to explain why your product is a compelling purchase for the customer, and how the customer will make buying decisions? What development stage is your primary business focus? Where along the journey of seed-early-growth does the group like to invest? What’s your attitude about “next round” financing?

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