Customer Early Stage Lean Seed Money 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. Can you recognize and capitalize on them? Tenacious – can you keep going when everyone else gives up?
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation.
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This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 16, 2018
Actually, I tend to lean more on the relationship building side, for a couple of reasons. First, in the early stages, there's a lot more information that can be gleaned about you than we can know for sure about the success of your company. Well, it all depends, right? How you think, what your plans are, etc.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. No need to name names.
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Convertible notes/SAFEs are usually executed around times of maximal uncertainty for a company; the very early stages. However, there are circumstances in which founders know there are potential serious milestones on the short-term horizon that would dramatically influence valuation, but they need to close their seed money now.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Startups that are aiming to enterprises would do right raising VC to improve their network and therefore have a greater chance to get customers. All what you said is so true.
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