Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. Third, venture capital has now become Founder-friendly. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company. The founders.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). Hiring Your Team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly currently has 70,000 publishers reaching 45mm readers.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy. With little to no revenue, many early stage entrepreneurs turn to the Co-Founder model to build credibility for their startup when raising seed capital. Early Stage. This is not a bad strategy when done correctly.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. VC Cafe: There has been a drastic rise in the number of funds offering seed (or super seed) capital in recent months, especially in the valley.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. This simply isn’t true and is why they were doomed to fail for not following one of the basic startup tips.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. As a bonus, you can hyperlink to things in PDFs through Adobe Acrobat Pro that are instantly clickable, compared to PowerPoint-based links. (It’s

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

To become a member, each accelerator must meet the following strict criteria: Operate a 3-6 month long program. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. Becoming a member in the GAN is not easy, but neither is operating a quality accelerator program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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. Growing Too Fast : This is, I think, the biggest killer of post-funding startups. Chris Dixon wrote a nice list of things startups do and don’t need which captures this.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. They are: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

It’s easy to see why – aside from a large industrial kitchen, their current facility also comprises a classroom for cake decorating classes, as well as sufficient seating space for his cafe operations. So the partners put together S$200,000 as seed capital and finally started Cake Over Heels in May this year.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. You can find those here. ).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A start-up venture critically depends on outside sources of funding to run its day to day operations. Procuring venture capital funding or business angels who put up with seed capital or expansion capital can be helpful and exciting.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

– Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no). – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital. – Accidental VC: recurring article sharing lessons overheard inside a VC’s office from a startup operator. A look at actual startups’ funnels).

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

When I put all of this together, what I see is: In the Bay Area, the seed stage is getting squeezed from all sides during this summer solstice of. 1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Our mantra is to provide seed capital, operational expertise and love. We are heavily invested in the outcome – with all our heart – but that her life was her script to write, not ours to hand over. Six investments into Homebrew there are some similarities.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. Getting seed capital (1M EUR or less) has become easier, but raising significant money (25M EUR and more) to turn your company in a global business continues to be difficult. Large companies also provide an important ‘exit strategy’ for startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Prior, he was a senior manager at Genentech in operations and project management. Ajay Kshatriya has 15 years of experience in biotechnology in energy, healthcare, and software.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Prior, he was a senior manager at Genentech in operations and project management. Ajay Kshatriya has 15 years of experience in biotechnology in energy, healthcare, and software.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Or because studios are closer to the builder / operator side of the spectrum than are accelerators which are closer to the VC side of the model. We had a specific goal in mind. But my prediction?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital. AutoDesk Acquires PlanGrid For $875M.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Survival or Establishment Stage: Once initial seed capital is drying up and no profit has yet been earned, the challenge for a social enterprise will be to expand the customer base and increase the market penetration while preserving capital. At this point in financing, debt capital is likely to be preferred.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

An SFGate article reports that the venture has raised more than $90 million in seed capital, as of April 2012. In the same month, educational video developer Craftsy reported raising $15 million in venture funding to help program operations, including the search for high-quality educators to develop video lessons.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Today, NextView Ventures is excited to release a pillar project in our Growth Guides series: pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

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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Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen, and Franck Nouyrigat got involved and brought real structure and operating chops to the table. Techstars remained involved informally – we hosted and attended events, promoted them, and ultimately funded many companies that emerged from these weekends through our accelerators and venture capital funds.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. Bryce Roberts: Bryce Roberts is co-founder of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a firm that invests seed-stage funds in startups with big, first-time ideas and technologies that have the potential to change the world. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

After operating for nearly ten years, we’ve recently being going through a company-wide process of rethinking our Mission, Vision, and Values. 12- Raising $500,000 in pre-seed capital. As a pre-revenue travel tech company, our biggest challenge right now is raising capital to help us hit our next major milestones.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. TheStartup.eu Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Meet Tipsandtrip. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it

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