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

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. After that, the money is used to maintain the company’s expansion.

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How to Up Your Board Meeting Game as a Founder [Deck Templates 2.0]

View from Seed

Founders who set up and lead effective board meetings from the very beginning stages of the business more quickly develop that crucial muscle memory. She wanted to receive feedback early and get into the practice in anticipation of later rounds and later-stage problems and opportunities.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

US-based seed VCs rarely invest outside of the country (500 Startups is one exception) leaving a potential gap in the market for folks with international expertise. With seed capital requirements which fall somewhere between a bank small business loan and venture. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.