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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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8 Keys To That First Investment From People You Know

Startup Professionals Musings

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Network to build investor relationships before you ask for money. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Tips for Investing in Startups: 4 Risks & Rewards

The Startup Magazine

A well constructed business plan , which not only shows ambition, but demonstrates that the founders have an understanding of the market pressures they have to overcome and the kinds of customers they are hoping to win, is a must. Rigorous research is your responsibility.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to enhance your business plan and marketing with all the benefits to your customers of the multiple “stimulus” plans and tax breaks now being put together, especially related to alternative energy products. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk. Research related tax credits and incentives.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times. The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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Don’t Forget Grants If You Need Early Seed Money

Gust

You need to enhance your business plan and marketing with all the benefits to your customers of the multiple “stimulus” plans and tax breaks now being put together, especially related to alternative energy products. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk. Research related tax credits and incentives.