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Pitch Deck Month: The “Can You Be The Best?” Slide

View from Seed

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Your job is to show that your positive momentum will lead to sustained market leadership. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *.

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate

Genuine VC

Willingness to lead – This leadership dynamic is important especially when talking with seed-only focused funds, as many have an explicit strategy of only participating in a round coming together with a third-party lead syndicate VC partner.

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

The market seemed crowded and our leadership position that had been built over many years seemed to not matter any more. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements.

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Twitter Link Roundup #74 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link].

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

I think people who invest in LP funds ought to take notice of Michael’s leadership position. The Venture Capitalists can help these young founding teams scale their engineering departments, develop business development relationships, deal with onslaught of PR, handle executive management challenges, etc.

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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Solid Organizational Processes. About the Author.