View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. I wasn’t evaluating companies, mind you, but the decks themselves — nitpicking every little design and layout element to borrow and adapt and inform our project.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Build a good business plan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Lastly, note that using free crowdfunding sites provides an excellent cost-effective solution compared to seed capital or personal loans with high-interest rates. The social proof and validation received from having numerous tangible backers can also be priceless.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Sounds great!

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. But doing that is sometimes not practical given your personal runway or because the product you want to build requires additional capital very early on. Is there founder/market fit?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2019

Computer vision as a market was valued at $9.28 billion by the end of 2023, according to Market Report World. million in seed capital led by Lavrock Ventures with participation from Scout Ventures and Advantage Ventures. This technology is working to make both public and private environments safer and smarter.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. This post is an open question, not a conclusion, because there are plenty of startups which are trying to grow this market using technology and new approaches.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. What’s a Startup?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We’ll need your contributions and your knowledge around categories like Product & Design , Marketing & Growth , Hiring & Talent , Fundraising , and more. – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital. And we’ll certainly add our knowledge and that of our immediate network’s.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. What’s a Startup?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

For instance, I’m fairly active in the content marketing industry , where the POTAJ often centers on quality content trumping spammy marketing tactics. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. You can find those here. ). Personal connections to industry or national press.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In fact, the owners insist that their cake designs is the patisserie’s unique selling point. “Others can design cakes too but usually not exactly to the specifications of a customer’s request,&# says co-owner and patissier Ang. The most requested design? From Design To Baking. “Relatively pricey.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. Choose one from our large library of thematic and designer backgrounds or, even better, upload your own. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes. 10x the experience.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. The Investors In researching this post, we solicited the advice of a number of investors. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Common types of IP rights include copyright, trademarks, patents , design rights, and trade secrets. Market Validation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. We built before testing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. We built before testing.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Today, NextView Ventures is excited to release a pillar project in our Growth Guides series: pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups. No problem, just turn to page 16 in the appendix.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. The product/service did not satisfy any need in the market. It is fundamental that during the market research process, you observe if what you have in mind can solve some substantial problem in it. Having a poor marketing strategy.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Why do I do it?

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

You may have gotten through your FFF round without a business plan, but in order to attract seed investors you will need a comprehensive plan complete with extensive market research and a detailed financial model. Be sure to budget a small amount ($2,500 – $5,000) of your FFF capital to ensure that you legally setup your firm.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. We are happy to speak with you at any revenue level, but somewhere in the $150k-range is when founders may start to look for seed capital. The response was overwhelming. Previously On.TinySeed.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

Lawyers, accountants, programmers, designers – everyone showed up to contribute. Techstars was helping the ones that were building businesses by growing their networks, providing intense mentorship, attracting seed capital, and scaling up through additional funding. Teams were formed that would last nearly a decade.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. We had to raise some seed capital.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. TheStartup.eu Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on startup advice but also filed under my sales & marketing posts. You’ve invested $1 million in building the perfect application the meet a large market need. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital.

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