Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). In short, Perez believes that we are currently in the deployment period for web and mobile.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit. Get some famous angel or seed money.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 18, 2013
The explosion in seed funding, without a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round (Series A), may mean that you can’t get a second round and will be “orphaned” or die. Seeded companies will take longer to raise a next round. As soon as you get seed money, it’s time to start working on the next round.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 9, 2018
Thanks to Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers ! #3- 2018 has been a successful year for Clearbridge Mobile. Thanks to Deepak Chopra, Clearbridge Mobile ! #4- Literally, one week later we had secured seed money, established business roles, added on another partner, ran the numbers, and started a pest control company!
andrewchen.co
AUGUST 20, 2012
My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M They can easily raise seed money because there’s a lot of willing investors in the ecosystem. Mobile as the driver. « Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999. -->.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
.&# And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.
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