Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. See Also When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too. “They were invited separately, and each of the three sat for the pitch and commented on it. Head down to your local Small Business Development Center.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. You want to establish a relationship here to gain access to their network at a later date. Here’s the new truth: It is rare to get anyone to invest in an idea these days.

Intellectual Property 76

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. link] Marco. Yavor Ivanov said: RT @sensing: [link] [.].

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Monetization. Advertising isn't cool."). Vision/Becoming a platform.

API 44

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I need money for the servers. Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency. We’ve written previously on the other technical challenges start-ups will face when working with agencies or developers.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. I was at that Internet Week when Katia and Hayley were networking pre-raise. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days. Growth hacking?

Startup 147

Startup Venture Capital IPO Viral 147

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The numbers I’ve heard from most everyone is that only about 20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93