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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

View from Seed

It doesn’t need to be extremely granular with all the minutiae of your expenses, but since employees are most often the overwhelming cost-drivers — and there aren’t too many early on in a company’s life — it’s prudent to build the expense lines on an employee by employee basis. Adjust the model for real-world scenarios.

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How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital

View from Seed

Board members have a fiduciary duty to look out for the interests of all shareholders specifically (and employees and other stakeholders generally). In the end, seed capital can help a startup get the best possible start in many cases. Board Deck Templates for Startups from NextView Ventures.

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on. Again, we feel incredibly grateful to engage in this kind of work and to even consider plans like these.

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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. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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How to calculate the equity split between co-founders in a startup

The Next Web

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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Why We Invested in Marlo

View from Seed

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

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.

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