View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
For example, employees aren’t going to start the day after the financing closes — it often takes three months or more to recruit additional core team members and get them up and going. Also, it will take at least three months to raise the next round of financing, whatever it is (Series A, seed extension, etc.).
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. I suppose he probably has both a day job and a passion for photography. Like oDesk.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 6, 2018
It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore. Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. What’s going on?
Genuine VC
MARCH 24, 2014
A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum. Generate Real Revenue. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. He built & IPOd Demand Media. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA?
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
I’m an individual investor in AngelList (pre-Homebrew) and remain excited about opening up supply and demand within early stage investing. As part of my seed fund Homebrew , we were also one of the first VCs to co-lead an investment alongside an AngelList syndicate (see Shyp ). Would Syndicates be a solution?
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