YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. For start-ups in hot markets, the problem also manifests itself in fundraising. Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating.

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View from Seed

MARCH 26, 2015

In the last year or so, the debate over the definitions of seed versus pre-seed capital (sometimes called genesis rounds) has exploded. Much digital ink has been spilled about what dollar amount constitutes a pre-seed and how that might affect a startup’s ability to go raise a “normal” seed round from institutional investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Founders Guide to Surviving Startup Life – crowdspring.co/1eYfYis. Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. 1gBDzfA. – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. A seed extension has ceased to be the equivalent of scarlet letter, and instead has become commonplace.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market. In a down market, it can be more difficult to raise venture capital. However, there are still opportunities for startups to raise money in a down market. However, raising venture capital in a down market can be difficult.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Lower-Than-Market Value.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. But doing that is sometimes not practical given your personal runway or because the product you want to build requires additional capital very early on. Is there founder/market fit?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

by Clarence Wooten , founder of VentureFund.io and Progress.ly. Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. But probably not how you’d think.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Don’t make everyone a founder. Seed to Series A.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. Some of these lessons might be useful because I’m not the founder who created those decks. 5 Surprising Mistakes Found in Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Decks. #1:

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

For instance, I’m fairly active in the content marketing industry , where the POTAJ often centers on quality content trumping spammy marketing tactics. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. The reason startups consider market efficiency essential to their success is because they are poised to play in a bigger field.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But the CEO was able to talk not only about his co-founders and vision in his pitch, but also presented detailed pre-launch interviews with a handful of prospective customers who indicated they’d participate in a paid beta once the product was ready. B) Post-Product Companies. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Of the NextView-backed founders have have tried to raise this round, over 70% have done so (compared to a mean success rate in the industry of around 27%, according to some sources ). They are: 1.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So I mostly kept my opinion within a small closed group and let my LPs know that K9’s strategy was to *not* change our strategy despite the pressures of the market. Seed is the New A. The seed round has ballooned. Implications for Founders. Seed is not the first round of funding any more. The Epilogue.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. This post is an open question, not a conclusion, because there are plenty of startups which are trying to grow this market using technology and new approaches.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? Focus on product – market fit. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This is his first post to The View From Seed. Chief among them was an initial study done by EverTrue founder and CEO — and Harvard Business School grad — Brent Grinna. It’s that first gentle, commercial push for student ideas that need to get out in the market.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Capital = Growth.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum. Generate Real Revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

muru - D will be hosting a roadshow in six Southeast Asian cities, including Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore, and selected startups will receive S$40,000 in seed capital, space in muru - D Singapore’s central business district office and as well as introductions to world-class mentors, coaches and investors.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. Unless your business idea is to launch an oil rig, you do not need huge capital investments.

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David Cohen

JULY 29, 2015

There is four times as much seed capital in the venture market this year as there was 1 year ago. Because of this, it’s easier to attract seed funding than it has been in the past. The founders shut the business down, and either take a job or go out and start a new company with more of that plentiful seed funding.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the best and most positive movements proliferating around the tech community is what Product Hunt founder and CEO Ryan Hoover calls “building in public.” We’ll need your contributions and your knowledge around categories like Product & Design , Marketing & Growth , Hiring & Talent , Fundraising , and more.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? Focus on product – market fit. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry. Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Ajay Kshatriya. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry. Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Ajay Kshatriya. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes. I’m long NY.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Procuring venture capital funding or business angels who put up with seed capital or expansion capital can be helpful and exciting. Assembling a competent team of allies in the form of patent lawyers, tax advisers, and market researchers allows the entrepreneur to focus on the business side of the venture.

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