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

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.”

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

View from Seed

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. They are: 1. Build Audience Momentum.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Stage #2: Seed Funding Seed funding (also called seed capital) typically ranges from $100,000 to $500,000 and is often provided by angel investors, and is usually structured as convertible notes or common stock. With seed funding, you hope to grow your business and, at the very least, gain proof of concept.

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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

One recipe for failure (business failure and capital raising failure) is building a lopsided team weighted to one function of the business. If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Third, venture capital has now become Founder-friendly.

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