David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Ideally we are looking for team members (full-time and advisory) with DNA from: – tech (especially sales tech, marketing tech, expert networks, B2B2C consumer internet); – communications (especially sales, PR, speechwriting, playwrighting); – public policy, legislative analysis and drafting, and/or policy or legislative advocacy.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Overall, at this point in the pitch, there should be a bit of a flip in the nature of the conversation.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

These strategies lay the groundwork for an effective backlink foundation and extend beyond mere SEO; they can also serve a valuable PR purpose. Capitalizing on Brand Mentions Stay In Tune: Continuously monitor brand mentions to get the most out of your outreach and PR efforts.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2016

The exceptions come for a myriad of reasons, common ones include experienced founders are able to raise seed or even Series A size rounds at the pre-seed stage, companies in hot markets or sectors (e.g. Forward Partners invests at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages, with slightly over half of our deals coming at Pre-Seed.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I'm a mentor and investor in CapitalFactory , a seed-stage startup mentorship program in Austin, TX. Free legal services to set up agreements, contracts, and EULAs, free graphic design work to make a nice logo and website, free PR services for product announcements, free office space, free website hosting, free software, and more.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2015

The checklist below is full of critical to-dos you simply can’t overlook, whether you’re setting a schedule for your board meeting, finding the necessary insurance plans, or communicating with your lawyer about your regulatory filings and how they align with your PR strategy.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Today, Twitter feels like it’s oxygen for VCs; firms spend thousands even millions on their websites, content strategies, marketing departments, events teams, PR workshops, and so forth. There are too many angels, accelerators, scouts, and seed funds who are giving them checks early, potentially diverting deal flow.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding?

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.).

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Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

In both cases, the amount of time spent is generally inversely proportional to the number of new seed investments the firm does a whole each year. Board seat requirements – Partner involvement post seed financing can, but doesn’t always, require codification with a board seat.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.).

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. Don’t shrug off poor sales or user growth, a dysfunctional team, a wave of bad PR, or other challenges confronting the business. If you’re in denial, it’s hard to overcome any challenge. Communicating with Your Team.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

Fourth , I am highly incentivized to provide assistance to my portfolio companies in any way that I can--whether it means connections to talent, PR, other capital, customers, etc. If I can provide helpful context about some of the seed stage startup best practices, great, but they know their company best.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. Don’t shrug off poor sales or user growth, a dysfunctional team, a wave of bad PR, or other challenges confronting the business. If you’re in denial, it’s hard to overcome any challenge. Communicating with Your Team.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Under the standard approach, even if the outlook for the company dramatically changes (positively) within 1 month post-closing (which at seed stage can happen), the valuation cap is what it is. The PR story behind that trend — the way it gets sold — is that it’s about saving companies money.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

“Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

The Venture Capitalists can help these young founding teams scale their engineering departments, develop business development relationships, deal with onslaught of PR, handle executive management challenges, etc. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone. Not to mention providing the capital for growth.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. advertising) on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and be preceded by a press and PR campaign to try and get coverage in the relevant press outlets and blogs. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Good summary of #EntUngpluggd event (by @yongshuling) – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2014

You have a seed-stage company who had raised $500,000 and then later raises $8 million still acting like a seed-stage startup. But at want point do you need to flip from scrappy to “scale-y”? Um, well, that word choice doesn’t exactly work. I have seen this problem up close so many times.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 28, 2011

Even though First Round is a small, seed stage fund and we don't have the kind of approach that forces more money on an entrepreneur than they need, the idea of calling something too small made me feel uncomfortably close to that mindset. In fact, these companies really need that entrepreneurial spirit badly to succeed and survive.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

There are also some companies in the marketplace who have an incentive to promote what they’re doing as autonomous to generate better positioning and buzz and PR value, which creates more confusion. .” But there are wildly different points of the view as to where we are now and how quickly we arrive at that future.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. 6] At the seed stage our valuation was in principle $100,000, becauseJulian got 10% of the company. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Solid Organizational Processes. About the Author.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list. The best part though is the tenacity link.

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