article thumbnail

Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. TechStars encourages them to go wherever opportunities take them. And do your customer development.

article thumbnail

Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital.

article thumbnail

The Missing Piece

Austin Startup

If you follow the writings regarding the Austin ecosystem you’ve probably read debates about the absence of capital. Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital. Most investing is local, most hiring is local, but very little buying is local.

article thumbnail

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos.

article thumbnail

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

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. In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors.

Restful 222
article thumbnail

Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So, you don't have to be physically in Silicon Valley or San Francisco to honestly get access to the best advice. We had to raise some seed capital. The reason we have so many listeners from Turkey is a good proof that the information is more democratized at this point. Also, the funding has also been democratized.