Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

Cofounder 78

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Entrepreneur 240

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Entrepreneur 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. If not, raise locally.

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