Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2015
I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2021
We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars. In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors.
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View from Seed
JUNE 10, 2020
Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program. When the point of the program is a Demo Day show at the end, all of the participating companies need to be in lock-step. all designed to scale, it requires a logistical effort with a rigid timeline.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 20, 2017
A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc., And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 8, 2012
Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. They had lots of investors trying to invest and each company was competitive with two other seed stage companies we’ve seen in the past 30 days. So – what do we do?
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