YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. These changes fit the needs of the current crisis, but also look forward to a time when consumers will be operating on leaner budgets.

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Board Effect

JUNE 28, 2022

Start-up Grants or Seed Money Grants — Start-up grants are hard to come by, but they exist. Project Grants — It’s common for grantors to fund programs and projects for nonprofits. Much as it sounds, project grants support a set of activities connected to a specific program or project. 10 Types of Nonprofit Grants.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. You seemed to be doing quite well in your first job with Lakeview Holdings, advancing to president of operations during your tenure. He’s spent over 20 years nurturing them all. The end result? Thank you.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2011

A new program that began earlier this year is looking for five IT-centric entrepreneurs to receive seed funds along with a series of services. Louis, the program is run by two venture capitalists - Judy Sindecuse and Hal Gentry - who have formed a new entity called Capital Innovators. Louis and the St.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. Operated by the U.S. “They were invited separately, and each of the three sat for the pitch and commented on it. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand. Not currently a student?

Angel Investor 60

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. Entrepreneurshit. And yet you have to.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons.

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Hackersshould do this even if they dont plan to start startups, because its the only real way to learn how to program. Thats nonsense.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Language doesnt matter Complex web applications can be built in just about any programming language, and its not really the language that is so important as the frameworks that are available. Tags: startup programming language startupcto. Rails is a web framework at heart, and is less suitable for non-web projects.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. Partner up?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Your Money. Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Clusterstock. Broker Center.

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