Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself. He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). LA By The Numbers. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2017

I am definitely not recommending you raise seed capital this way—but you wouldn’t be the only person to have done it.). If you can’t separate the roles, it’s essential that present clear, strong, consistent credit terms to your customers, letting them know what the terms are, what is expected of them, and how they are enforced.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Paul Graham, another notable investor and co-founder of seed capital firm, Y Combinator, looks for the equivalent of “passion” before deciding whether or not to invest in a founder.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The Angel Capital Education Foundation has three hundred American angel groups in its database, and they all come in many forms. Group members meet regularly to review business proposals and watch presentations of the selected businesses. They decide together whether or not to invest in the presenting entrepreneur.

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Rob Go

MAY 14, 2012

Sure, there is more availability of seed capital in the past, although if you watch carefully, you will notice that most of the elite seed funds have slowed down their pace considerably over the last 12 months. But it’s much easier to identify authentic entrepreneurs going after non-obvious opportunities.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. The “idea” must be well thought out, there needs to be a team or potential team, the presentation needs to be very good, confidence must be high.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

At the very least, answer ALL the profile questions, include your company’s logo, create a two-minute elevator pitch video and upload your presentation deck. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

If you watch the video/audio below, youll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Even more impressive is that the culture there seems to have been the conscious creation of just a few people. And do your customer development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2012

It’s true that Angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. You can end up becoming very frustrated with the investors, or cause the venture to fail if you run out of seed capital before the angel round can be completed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. You can end up becoming very frustrated with the investors, or cause the venture to fail if you run out of seed capital before the angel round can be completed.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The program offers seed capital, office space, and "most importantly - that magical ingredient of 'smart-community' with mentors and other entrepreneurs." Springboard debuted in 2009 as an " accidental incubator " emerging from the company Red Gate Software. Springboard aims to help early stage startups.

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Up and Running

MAY 2, 2014

I learned this lesson when I raised the first round of seed capital for my startup PopInShop , an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. More important, they knew us, and believed that we were the right team to tackle the opportunity we were presenting.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. You can end up becoming very frustrated with the investors, or cause the venture to fail if you run out of seed capital before the angel round can be completed.

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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. The second type of pitch is more of a show.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Unlike people whose experience is limited to the bubble of Silicon Valley, he’s seen the challenges presented by unstable governments and currency, such as the difficulties of making cross-border payments. My quintessential teacher here is Wences.

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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. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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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. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This full day of insightful panels, interactive workshops, and networking is presented by Capital Factory and The Center of Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas. Inclusive Innovation Summit Latinx Tech Summit?—?Saturday,

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

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. In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In late 2008, I was about to turn in my 2 week resignation at Google to start a company when Sequoia sent out a presentation to their portfolio companies. In their 56 slide presentation of doom and gloom, they told their companies to batten down the hatches and expect to survive a year without external funding.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

When asked about whether founders should pitch with PowerPoint, Kapor talks up the value of a presentation in general. “I like a cogent, coherent presentation. A good PDF, Keynote or PowerPoint presentation can provide that but there are other ways as well,&# he says. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Listen to my entire interview with Errol: If you can’t hear the clip, click here. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 12- Raising $500,000 in pre-seed capital. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quartely or yearly goals around their business.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Many people struggle with this part of the pitch deck, and in the presentation this time will most likely be more of a discussion, moderated by you, where it is necessary you write down every word and suggestion said. Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook. How will you make money or reach mass adoption?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would love to present our BP. Then just present those case studies. This has presented a problem of the decision makers at resorts balking on spending 50K+ on an unproven idea, although we did a beta test around 2000 with 3 mountains that went well. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

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