View from Seed
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
The following is a real (but anonymized) email to us at NextView where a founder debates the timing of his seed raise: I met with someone today who said I should push to close a seed round before I launch the product. Do you have the experience, reputation, and network that make it relatively easy to raise seed capital?
View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network. Others are not.
David Teten
MAY 7, 2019
Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading. Sounds great!
David Teten
JULY 10, 2019
Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service. Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
In reality the “private capital market” now really consists of three distinct markets: Seed capital (the start), Venture capital (scale or bust) and Growth Capital (private IPOs). Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? Still reading? Want some context?
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