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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund aims to “enable more young African-Americans to enter the technology industry.”. Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes.

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Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption

This is going to be BIG.

I don't have to tell you what the racial distribution of the group benefitting looks like relative to those doing the work. Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow. Or these NYPD officers who took a knee.

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