Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. The challenge here is that founders – having an easy time raising their seed rounds and maybe Series A – can be lulled into thinking that each subsequent round will be just as easy. Looking ahead to 2017.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

by Catherine Hoke, founder and CEO of Defy Ventures. The now successful CEO and founder of Brown Butter New York, a company that produces high-end cooking butter, was once a court-described “menace to society” whose life was overrun by drugs, gang-related assault, and armed robbery. How to Position Yourself for Funding.

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Bootstrapping Startup Seed Money New York 249

Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

apprupt The apprupt founders initially launched and received funding from us for Jupidi. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me.

Software Review 64

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Germany 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Tags: entrepreneur startup degree founder business. An MBA is helpful, but not required. Supplement course work with practical experience. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Seed Money Social Network Networking Business Plan 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. You can keep overhead low.

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Sweat Equity Startup Angel Investor Seed Money 231

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Dividing equity between founders » Home. Should startups keep their ideas secret? link] Mark Essel. Yavor Ivanov said: RT @sensing: [link] [.].

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. In these cases we proactively offer to lead their next round of financing. If we invest the follow-on money comes from our non-seed fund (e.g. the $190 million).

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Post-Money Valuation Term Sheet Warrant Partner 298

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Every model has a happy outcome when a founder is trying to convince himself or herself, a team, an investor, or even a spouse that the venture ahead is a good idea. You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies.

Valuation 48

Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

What can founders do in advance to make the trough as shallow as possible? . If you are in the pre-product launch stage and want to ask random people what they think of your idea or product, don’t say “hi, I”m the founder of XYC company, can you tell me what you think of this product?”. Find good financing partners.

Bootstrapping 46

Bootstrapping Finance Dividend Vesting 46

Rob Go

JANUARY 20, 2015

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. So, what does this mean for founders? Don’t sweat this.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Finance Seed Money 28

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

Here were some of the takeaways I had from the class discussion framed around three major questions I posed to the students: 1) Why did foursquare succeed as compared to the same founder (Dennis) in a similar venture (Dodgeball) in a different era and as compared to other teams pursuing LBS services in the same era? .

API 44

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario. Sure – it happens.

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Recapitalization Pre-Money Valuation Post-Money Valuation Angel Investor 70

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Your Money. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Clusterstock. Broker Center.

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Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Sarah Lacy.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93