The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

pexels You need to have enough resources by having a seed-stage investor who will financially support your company in the long run. I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. How does the funding for the seed stage work?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The larger the company, the more they’ll separate out business development and sales, with business development focused primarily on lead generation and sales focused on sealing the actual sale of the product or service. Sales roles : The sales cycle is similar to the recruitment cycle of a source.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). The strongest investors usually aren’t cheap, but typically don’t do things outside of the normal bounds for a company at the seed stage.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). At the pre-seed stage, there is no way to prove that your thesis is right or wrong. The way you get to a V3 statement is to start running the business and charging customers. And that’s ok.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). At the pre-seed stage, there is no way to prove that your thesis is right or wrong. The way you get to a V3 statement is to start running the business and charging customers. And that’s ok.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And just play the probabilities in your head of who will actually be likely to invest in a random company at your stage. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. But VCs look at unit economics in different ways. Basically zero.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And just play the probabilities in your head of who will actually be likely to invest in a random company at your stage. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. But VCs look at unit economics in different ways. Basically zero.

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