View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Dennis Chim (DC): Monetization is difficult for influencers, but social commerce has given them the ability to sell directly to their fans rather than referring away traffic to online retailers like Amazon. DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers. Get to know the business.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 28, 2015

Earlier this week I was fortunate to tour Halcyon Incubator in the Georgetown neighborhood of DC. The year long social entrepreneurship incubator, offers 8 early stage social entrepreneurs the opportunity to live and work in the Halcyon House (a bit more on the property later).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Tickets are available now and include dinner. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. Brilliant insight. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

Going forward, VCAP will primarily focus on 25-35 of the most investment-ready early-stage women and minority owned companies (the “VCAP Fellows”). Lastly, the most investment-ready VCAP Fellows will also be introduced to early stage VCs (e.g., ff Venture Capital) for investment consideration.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 15, 2011

But what’s going on right now with early stage company valuations suggests that VCs may be poor judges of at least some of these patterns. In 2002 a series of random shootings rocked the Washington DC area. In reality, DC is a city of over 600,000 people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. In other words, we want to use the spreadsheet to quantify our progress using the most important unit: validated learning about customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2013

Small business people rarely hire lobbyists, and rarley have the time or resources to visit Washington DC themselves to meet their elected representatives. 30: To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, to provide for a small business early-stage investment program, and for other purposes. ” What?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. There is no iteration in the process, in fact the SBCE serves to remove iterations (rework). I guess the crux of the problem is SBCE gives you a quicker path to a better solution of a known problem.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I requested data from the leaders of 46 angel groups in 26 states (plus DC) and 2 provinces. DC Dinner Clubs. DC/Virginia. 3) Some groups invest $2 million or more in pre-revenue companies, while others typically invest less than $500,000 in these very early stage ventures. Cincinnati. SeedStep Angels. flat to up.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

Yet, having a vibrant ecosystem to seed early stage startups is one thing. A few years ago, Boris wrote that something special was happening in the Toronto-KW corridor (for those of you non-Canadians, that would be like SF and the Valley). The surprising thing is how different these messages can be.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 15, 2011

But what’s going on right now with early stage company valuations suggests that VCs may be poor judges of at least some of these patterns. In 2002 a series of random shootings rocked the Washington DC area. In reality, DC is a city of over 600,000 people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Ill mention one last thing about knowing what channels of communication your customers engage with. It also gives you insight into their language. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Two years ago, Tianyi co-founded SmartHealth Activator, an early stage biotech accelerator and venture firm in North Chicago. It is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. The Leaders Forum is founded and guided by leaders in business, technology, science, public policy, the arts, and government.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2012

More accelerator news in the DC Metro. The organization grew out the efforts from early stage VC firm Fortify Ventures LLC, also known as Fortify.vc (that’s its URL, too), which had previously invested in nearly dozen D.C.-area From Techcrunch. Hot, new Washington D.C. area tech companies.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

They assume that the tasks that they are performing during the early stage of startup development are the same tasks that will be performed during the next and very different stages. Open Innovation in DC. They assume that their skills will remain as valuable to the startup as they are right now. ► August. (2).

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Listen to my entire interview with Errol: If you can’t hear the clip, click here. The Origins of National Science Foundation I-Corps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. (You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) Instead, we should have thought of it as an indication of validated learning.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think intimate practice pitch sessions featuring real-time feedback from the NextView team and the broader early-stage investment community. Rather, we work with each team on an individual basis and come up with a specialized fundraising plan, catered to YOUR business and YOUR goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. We tend to do more $2-3 million “A&# rounds and we look for companies that have an early monetization strategy.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

SeedInvest : Platform for early stage startups. BEFORE US AND WASHINGTON DC. Print a lot of business cards, 100 is not enough, there’s only 50 YTILI Fellows in DC plus you will meet many people from German Marshall Fund and the U.S. In DC you will learn a lot about US culture, how to pitch, hustle and much more.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

However, VCs, who pride themselves on making bold bets, have rarely funded entrepreneurs in Quadrant IV, particularly at the early stage. 645 Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture fund that focuses on Internet and software companies. Another example is 645 Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Nnamdi Okike.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Techstars is probably the most famous accelerator but the idea of the accelerator versus the incubator because there is living field, because there’s this very early stage fields for them both. The cool thing is with the device like, that with the science like that, there’s a lot of early stage proving ground needed.

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